From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 10:40:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 10:40:57 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:50449 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 10:40:16 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports To: vojtech@suse.cz (Vojtech Pavlik) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 16:00:23 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), padraig@antefacto.com (Padraig Brady), dalecki@evision-ventures.com (Martin Dalecki), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Kernel Mailing List) In-Reply-To: <20020522154902.A361@ucw.cz> from "Vojtech Pavlik" at May 22, 2002 03:49:02 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 02:52:19PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > /sbin/kbdrate: util-linux > > > > I'd hope kbrate is using the ioctls nowdays, otherwise it will break on USB > > Actually, the ioctls won't work on USB, because they try to output data > to the traditional i/o ports anyway. The ioctl goes to the keyboard driver. They keyboard driver either implements it, errors it or is buggy. No other path. I seem to be able to portably set my keyboard rate on everything but USB 8)