From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264790AbUE2NNz (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 09:13:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264737AbUE2NNz (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 09:13:55 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([81.30.235.3]:27268 "EHLO midnight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264790AbUE2NNq (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 May 2004 09:13:46 -0400 Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 15:14:06 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Tuukka Toivonen Cc: Giuseppe Bilotta , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6 Message-ID: <20040529131406.GB6185@ucw.cz> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:59:55PM +0300, Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > >The new system has some ups and downs. The biggest "down", > >which is that of RAW mode not being available anymore (it's > >emulated!) could be circumvented by having both the RAW and > >translated codes move between layers. > > Ouch! If the user asks for raw mode, he doesn't get it, but some emulated > mode? To me this sounds like a big incompatibility. Q1: What would you do if the user has an USB keyboard? Q2: What application should be looking at the raw data outside the kernel and why? > Fortunately this patch > (written together with Sau Dan Lee) should give _really_ raw mode in 2.6.x > too (but it's not compatible with the raw mode in 2.4.x): > > http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/tmp/linux-2.6.5-userdev.20040507.patch -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR