Re: Patch: hook for extra kbd module

Jon Tombs (jon@gte.esi.us.es)
Fri, 22 Mar 1996 22:02:22 +0100 (MET)

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Tom Bjorkholm said:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Below is a patch/diff against linux-1.3.77.
> The patch adds a symbol "tty_insert_esc" that gets exported
> to modules. This allows me (and others) to write modular device
> drivers for things like application keyboards (extra add-on keyboards).
>
> Could you please include this patch in the "main-stream" kernels!
> -- Or tell me a better way to merge characters/escape-sequences from
> a special device with the character stream from the normal keyboard!

can't you just use ioctls (TIOCSTI I think is one) to puch characters into
the tty. That way you don't even need a module, just a user mode program (that
has access to the tty :-)).

-- 
Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>

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