drivers/char/keyboard.c now unused?

drivers/char/keyboard.c now unused?

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi all.

I've been doing some work on porting my patches to the 2.4 version of
software suspend to 2.5. Under 2.4, I use the shift_state variable from
drivers/char/keyboard.c to provide interactive, step-by-step progression
through the process. That is, there is an option for you to be able to
press and release shift before the next stage starts. With the new input
layer, drivers/char/keyboard.c still exists, but seems to be unused. Can
I get confirmation that my understand is correct, and (if possible) a
pointer to information on how I can reimplement the functionality under
2.5?

Oh and before anyone has a hernia, I'm not intending to leave this
functionality in the final version - its just for debugging purposes.

Thanks in advance,

Nigel

Re: drivers/char/keyboard.c now unused?

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

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On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 15:41:15 +1300, Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>  said:

> I've been doing some work on porting my patches to the 2.4 version of
> software suspend to 2.5. Under 2.4, I use the shift_state variable from
> drivers/char/keyboard.c to provide interactive, step-by-step progression
> through the process. That is, there is an option for you to be able to
> press and release shift before the next stage starts. With the new input

Barely related - is there anything that supports the shift_state stuff
for accessibility issues (for instance, people with too little mobility to
hold shift and a key at the same time)?  Or is that something that hasn't
even been looked at, or is the usual answer "Use an input method on the X
server"?

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Re: drivers/char/keyboard.c now unused?

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:41:15PM +1300, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I've been doing some work on porting my patches to the 2.4 version of
> software suspend to 2.5. Under 2.4, I use the shift_state variable from
> drivers/char/keyboard.c to provide interactive, step-by-step progression
> through the process. That is, there is an option for you to be able to
> press and release shift before the next stage starts. With the new input
> layer, drivers/char/keyboard.c still exists, but seems to be unused. Can
> I get confirmation that my understand is correct, and (if possible) a
> pointer to information on how I can reimplement the functionality under
> 2.5?

Your understanding is not correct, and drivers/char/keyboard.c is very
much used for all keyboard input in 2.5.

> Oh and before anyone has a hernia, I'm not intending to leave this
> functionality in the final version - its just for debugging purposes.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Nigel
> 
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