From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755121Ab1AaHlB (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:41:01 -0500 Received: from ksp.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.206]:41192 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750912Ab1AaHlA (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jan 2011 02:41:00 -0500 Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:40:48 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Arthur Taylor 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 Message-ID: <20110131074048.GB4178@ucw.cz> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > Cc: Andrew Morton > Cc: Alan Cox > Signed-off-by: Arthur Taylor ACK. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html