Re: Mark keyboard RAW mode deprecated

James Simmons (jsimmons@edgeglobal.com)
Fri, 19 Nov 1999 21:25:43 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, David S. Miller wrote:

> Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 22:37:41 +0100
> From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
>
> In times of sun keyboards and usb keyboards, keyboard raw mode has
> no longer good sense. People already had problems with it on
> powerpc: system then behaves different if you use different kind of
> keyboard. We should better let world know raw mode is doomed to
> dead.
>
> Ummm... doesn't the X server use RAW mode exclusively?

Their exist other programs that use RAW mode also. Please don't get remove
this feature.

>
> Later,
> David S. Miller
> davem@redhat.com
>
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