Re: splitting ruby

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

> Well, I don't expect problems for PPC, as the adbhid.c driver is already 
> part of 2.4.0, (sigh, reminds me to merge PPC code between ruby and 2.4.0)

Does this include a fix for the USB keyboard double repeat problem. I
tried a USB keyboard on a G4 and if you typed to fast it double printed 
each character. The same driver on a ix86 doesn't show thsi problem. I
have never been able to figure out what it was.
 
> including the rest of the input code in 2.5.0 will just simplify the code 
> and clarify configuration (especially on HW supporting both ADB and PS2 
> keyboards) for us.

Yes. The keyboard multiplexer code is very nice :-) Makes life much
easier.

> My TODO list for the full input code merge on PPC is quite short:
>   - drop the emulate_raw() support for ADB keycodes, present in 2.4

How will X work? The way XFree86 works is it places the VT in raw mode and
grabs the keycodes. You have to patch X to use /dev/event instead which at
the rate of XFree86 developement could be years from now. I plan to add a
printk that states using RAW mode is outdated. I hope this annoyes the
hell out of the XFree86 guys so they do fix it.

>   - drop the emulation code for 2nd and 3rd mouse button (maybe not?)

Could the emulation be done in userland? If so they you coudl drop it.

>   - eventually write a handler kmmdev.c, that mixes keyboard and mouse 
> events onto a single device (similar to /dev/input/mice) running the event 
> protocol

Why?