From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: "P.Manohar" <pmanohar@lantana.cs.iitm.ernet.in>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ioctl to keyboard device file.
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 19:14:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1115831651.23458.74.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0505112207300.21632@lantana.cs.iitm.ernet.in>
Hi,
> I want to add a new ioctl to keyboard driver device file which will
> perform the work of copying user space data sent to it into kernel
> space and send those characters to handle_scancode function of keyboard
> driver.. Now I want to know
>
> 1) what is the device file corresponding to keyboard (is it
> /dev/input/keyboard).
> 2) where file operations structure is defined for that.
> 3) where the those ioctls handled(not found in keyboard.c).
>
> Any small help is appreciated.
why not using uinput for this job?
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-11 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-11 16:43 ioctl to keyboard device file P.Manohar
2005-05-11 17:14 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2005-05-11 17:34 ` P.Manohar
2005-05-11 17:53 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-11 18:17 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0505121454240.26644@lantana.cs.iitm.ernet.in>
2005-05-12 10:01 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-16 8:58 ` P.Manohar
2005-05-16 9:54 ` Marcel Holtmann
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.60.0505162112240.25368@lantana.cs.iitm.ernet.in>
2005-05-16 16:19 ` Marcel Holtmann
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