* Dummy keyboard driver @ 2004-06-19 20:09 Ralf Baechle 2004-06-19 22:38 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Ralf Baechle @ 2004-06-19 20:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-mips 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Dummy keyboard driver 2004-06-19 20:09 Dummy keyboard driver Ralf Baechle @ 2004-06-19 22:38 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw 2004-06-20 0:03 ` Ralf Baechle 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Jan-Benedict Glaw @ 2004-06-19 22:38 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-mips [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 907 bytes --] 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 -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA)); [-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Dummy keyboard driver 2004-06-19 22:38 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw @ 2004-06-20 0:03 ` Ralf Baechle 2004-06-20 10:11 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw 0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Ralf Baechle @ 2004-06-20 0:03 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-mips 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: Dummy keyboard driver 2004-06-20 0:03 ` Ralf Baechle @ 2004-06-20 10:11 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Jan-Benedict Glaw @ 2004-06-20 10:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: linux-mips [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1560 bytes --] 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 -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA)); [-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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