Re: Latest analog joystick code

[James S. <jsi...@ac...>]

> linux/Documentation/joystick-parport.txt

Good stuff. I'm going to pass it off to our local LUG. We have a few
electronics buffs in the group.

> > By the way your stuff works great. The only difference I have noticed is
> > if I press ALT-F# more than once it will VT switch then print a capital
> > letter where its position in the alphabet is #. At a login in prompt I get
> > a ^[[A or ^[[B etc depending on which # VT we are one. I wonder if this is
> > from the console code with the new emulation or from the keyboard driver. 
> > Does this happen for a USB keyboard thats attached to a VT ? 
> 
> Yes, I know about this and will be looking for the cause. Somehow the
> shift state isn't carried across different VT's. It might be a bug in my
> changes to char/keyboard.c, but I doubt that - I kept them minimal.

It's not only when I VT switch away. If I'm on VT 1 and keep pressing 
Alt-F1 it also prints out a A. 

> Anyway, I'd like to rewrite (or better someone else to rewrite :)
> keyboard.c - it's big, and complex, and doesn't have very clean
> interface to the rest of the system.

Better than what was before. Its a matter of creating a better raw
keyboard to console handling. Especially if we are going to support per VT 
keymaps. 

> Also, escape sequences are stored right in the keymaps, with I doubt
> does come well with selectable VT emulations.
>
> Oh, and last comment: The input subsystem supports more than 3 LEDs.
> I've seen places in the VT code that limits this to 3 - this should be
> eliminated.

Noted. Some things to cleanup. Is Dominik still will us? Dominik?