From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Arthur Taylor <art@ified.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: Add virtual console keyboard mode OFF
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:40:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110131074048.GB4178@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikZe1EuvNQHceNUdKFpmmeAbQG8H+34AG9fw43u@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun 2011-01-30 00:36:22, Arthur Taylor wrote:
> Add a new mode for the virtual console keyboard OFF to compliment RAW
> in which all key events are ignored. New mode prevents vt input
> buffers from overflowing when a program opens but doesn't read from a
> tty, like Xorg using only evdev for input.
>
> The new mode is available by the ioctl KDSKBMODE with argument K_OFF
> from linux/kd.h. Does not effect sysrq behaviour.
>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arthur Taylor <art@ified.ca>
ACK.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-31 7:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-30 8:36 Arthur Taylor
2011-01-31 7:40 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2011-01-31 17:46 ` Greg KH
2011-02-02 2:07 ` [PATCH] [resend] " Arthur Taylor
2011-02-03 18:48 ` Greg KH
2011-02-04 21:55 ` Arthur Taylor
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