Re: Supporting multiple keyboard

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

> On another note, I think you should definately not change the semantics of
> the console switching behaviour. This is used by other operating systems too,
> so if you break this, you will make Linux incompatible with quite some
> applications. (See the VT-switch handling code in the X server, as a reference).

We will keep it until the end of the developement cycle for 2.5.X. Hopefully 
the X servers will be updated by then. One it's a bad design. Two linux is
moving in a different direction than other UNIX OSes. It's would be a mess
to support the standard method and multihead at the same time. Their is
already code in the X servers that is linux specific. Adding the input
interface will add more. Using the input layer works more toward how X is
designed. X also see every device including the keyboard as a input device. 
I have been looking at the X server design to work in the input stuff.

Q: Why did they deprecate a.out support in linux?
A: Because a nasty coff is bad for your elf.

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