Re: keyboard driver of 2.6 kernel

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On 1/4/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 14:02 +0530, P.Manohar wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >      I have a small doubt in Linux kernel keyboard driver.
> > In 2.4 kernels the starting fuction of keyboard driver is "handle_scancode".
> > But in 2.6 kernels the keyboard interface
> > is changed drastically.  If you familiar with that can you tell me the starting
> > fuction of keyboard interace which gets
> > the scancodes in 2.6 kernels.
> >
> > Actually my paln is to stuff scancodes or keycodes to the keyboard buffer
> > , from there on the keyboard driver processes them.  I have done this for
> > 2.4 kernel.  I want to implement the same to 2.6 kernel.
> >
> > Is there any keyloggers which are implemented for 2.6 kernels?
>
> this is not r00tkitnewbies mailing list
>
> keyloggers are evil!
>

Anyway, if you want to read keypresses and other input events use
corresponding event device (/dev/input/eventX). If you want to feed
input events into the kernel you need to use "uinput" driver.

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Dmitry