From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265797AbUFDOMZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:12:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265791AbUFDOLb (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:11:31 -0400 Received: from gprs214-121.eurotel.cz ([160.218.214.121]:19585 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265787AbUFDOL0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:11:26 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 16:11:15 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Sau Dan Lee Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6 Message-ID: <20040604141115.GE11950@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20040530111847.GA1377@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > >> In a nutshell, I hate to be restricted by YOUR own imaginations > >> of how people should hack the system. > > Vojtech> You're not. You're free to hack the kernel drivers. > > Not everyone using Linux is patient enough to explore the Wonderland > of kernel hacking. Many immigrants from 2.4 are highly disappointed > by the new but incompatible mouse/keyboard behaviours. Some of them > returned to their 2.4 homeland because of this. How can you propose moving keyboard handling to userland in one thread and complain about 2.4-vs-2.6 incompatibility of inputs in another?! 2.4-vs-2.6 broke few strange keyboards. What you are proposing would break everyone who has a keyboard. Pavel -- 934a471f20d6580d5aad759bf0d97ddc