From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Lortie Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab. Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:37:34 -0400 Message-ID: <1193290654.15893.2.camel@moonpix.desrt.ca> References: <20070609084800.GR6362@aehallh.com> <1193191094.32696.2.camel@moonpix.desrt.ca> <200710232333.08306.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> <20071024153508.GG26573@aehallh.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071024153508.GG26573@aehallh.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "Zephaniah E. Hull" Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik , linux-input List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-24-10 at 11:35 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > We need a way to, at the absolute minimum, unbind the keyboard from the > text console. The current solution sucks for things like rfkill. > > I'm not convinced that Ryan's fix is any better, but just saying that X > should open the console and ignore the characters is simply not an > option as far as I am concerned for X. Can you think of any other way to separate things like rfkill/evdev from things like the text console that's less hacky than my 'priority' scheme? Cheers