[Kbde-general] Why KBDE-driver (instead of the user-space input support)

[Damjan <pen...@ma...>]

In the Linux 2.6 kernel the Input Layer system (and I think it's been fully 
backproted to recent 2.4.x kernels) there's support for user-space input 
devices.

That means that, in the diagram on http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6396 , 
a user space program can generate input events (keyboard, mouse, joystick, 
touchscreen events... etc).

Can't user-space input support be used instead of KBDE-driver... this will 
mean that users will not need to compile KBDE-driver for each kernel release.



-- 
damjan