Re: input patch

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

Sorry. I have been busy writing patches for 2.5.X.

> I have been trying to do that, and encountered a problem. Making this
> input patch makes sense provided the console and input stuff are
> separable. Is that the case ? 

Nope. It is the opposite. The console layer depends on the input layer. 
Not the other way around. 

> Right now, it looks to me there is a strong
> depedency: the keyboard depends on the vt, which depends on the console,
> which depends on the frame buffer.
> At the end, my input patch may more or less include the whole ruby/linux
> tree !!!

No. Both the framebuffer layer and the input layer can exist without a VT
console. Now the VT console does need a display system i.e framebuffer
console, vgacon etc and the input api system.