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From: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Reading keys
Date: Mon, 10 May 2010 18:55:47 +0200
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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