Re: keyboard raw mode

Congjun Yang
2006-07-02T08:21:35Z

2.6.9-22.EL(CentOS 4.2) is what I currently use.
2.4.20 was where I first saw, in keyboard.c, the
workaround that throws away a second break code.

I think I like the new design for the user input
system: separate the protocol layer from the raw port.
But, would it be nice for the atkbd driver to still
provide a raw (or passthrough) mode?

Thanks,
Congjun Yang

--- Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 01 July 2006 05:55, Jan-Benedict Glaw
> wrote:
> > * All protocol drivers (eg. the atkbd driver)
> will *never* ever
> > stuff the raw I/O anywhere.
>
> Actually some of them do via EV_MSC/MSC_RAW events.
> So raw code should be
> available through evdev nodes and also on x86
> keyboard driver in raw mode
> should also pass raw data through (from atkbd only).
>
> Congjun, what 2.6.x kernel have you tried?
>
> --
> Dmitry