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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 02:05:52 -0700
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E1lint?= Czobor <czoborbalint@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Mike Lockwood <lockwood@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] input: keychord: Add keychord driver
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:47:26AM +0100, Bálint Czobor wrote:
> From: Mike Lockwood <lockwood@android.com>
> 
> This driver allows userspace to receive notification when client
> specified key combinations are pressed.
> The client opens /dev/keychord and writes a list of keychords
> for the driver to monitor.
> The client then reads or polls /dev/keychord for notifications.
> A client specified ID for the keychord is returned from read()
> when a keychord press is detected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Lockwood <lockwood@android.com>
> 
> keychord: fix to build without CONFIG_PREEMPT

Why does this need to be in the kernel?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry