From: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
To: Niko Rosvall <niko@fograven.net>
Cc: Linux input <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reading keys
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:55:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1273510547.10849.10.camel@lovely> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1273507273.2199.13.camel@localhost>
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 19:01 +0300, Niko Rosvall wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm new to Linux kernel and actually subscribed to this list today.
> So, i'm not even sure is this the right place to ask this, but:
>
> I want to make a kernel module which detects a keypress and then
> disables it. E.g someone presses F1 and my module would just "eat" it.
Interesting usecase, is it for a kiosk? And why don't you disable the
keys in X or your application?
> Any examples and/or hints where to start? Some nice, small peace of code
> would be very very nice.
You could hack input_event() in drivers/input/input.c
Thanks,
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-10 16:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-10 16:01 Reading keys Niko Rosvall
2010-05-10 16:55 ` Christoph Fritz [this message]
2010-05-10 19:54 ` Niko Rosvall
2010-05-10 20:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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