Dummy keyboard driver

Dummy keyboard driver

[Ralf Baechle]

Is there still a need for the dummy keyboard driver?  Right now DUMMY_KEYB
is being set for a bunch of platforms without having any effect so I take
to mean we can remove dummy_keyb.c.

  Ralf

Re: Dummy keyboard driver

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Sat, 2004-06-19 22:09:23 +0200, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
wrote in message <20040619200923.GA22409@linux-mips.org>:
> Is there still a need for the dummy keyboard driver?  Right now DUMMY_KEYB
> is being set for a bunch of platforms without having any effect so I take
> to mean we can remove dummy_keyb.c.

I (vax 2.6.x tree) don't even have that file, and there shouldn't be no
need for any kind of dummy keyboard. Either there's at least one
keyboard attached (multiple are fine, though), you get input. No
keyboard (driver), no input. Simple.

Just drop it.

MfG, JBG

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Re: Dummy keyboard driver

[Ralf Baechle]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:38:30AM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-06-19 22:09:23 +0200, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> wrote in message <20040619200923.GA22409@linux-mips.org>:
> > Is there still a need for the dummy keyboard driver?  Right now DUMMY_KEYB
> > is being set for a bunch of platforms without having any effect so I take
> > to mean we can remove dummy_keyb.c.
> 
> I (vax 2.6.x tree) don't even have that file, and there shouldn't be no
> need for any kind of dummy keyboard. Either there's at least one
> keyboard attached (multiple are fine, though), you get input. No
> keyboard (driver), no input. Simple.
> 
> Just drop it.

I don't think the original reason for it still exists and even if it
was it'd need to be rewritten and moved so I'm removing it now.

  Ralf

Re: Dummy keyboard driver

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

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On Sun, 2004-06-20 02:03:48 +0200, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
wrote in message <20040620000348.GB23498@linux-mips.org>:
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 12:38:30AM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-06-19 22:09:23 +0200, Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
> > wrote in message <20040619200923.GA22409@linux-mips.org>:
> > I (vax 2.6.x tree) don't even have that file, and there shouldn't be no
> > need for any kind of dummy keyboard. Either there's at least one
> > keyboard attached (multiple are fine, though), you get input. No
> > keyboard (driver), no input. Simple.
> > 
> > Just drop it.
> 
> I don't think the original reason for it still exists and even if it
> was it'd need to be rewritten and moved so I'm removing it now.

Right. Looong ago, you had to have keyboard driver if you had CONFIG_VT
switched on (because tty/vt core then referenced some functions for key
mapping and LED status setting), but those times are gone.

Today's dummy keyboard actually *is* the whole Input API. I think the
"direct" way of pumping data into tty/vt core went away around 2.6.1 (or
around that), when the parisc team ported their HIL and ps2-keyboard
drivers to Input API drivers or serio adaptors.

MfG, JBG

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