Re: question about ruby's keyboard.c & keybdev.c

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 03:29:53PM +0200, Franz Sirl wrote:
> On Samstag, 6. Juli 2002 23:59, James Simmons wrote:
> > > > > for maintenance reasons. keybdev.c provides bridge code between input
> > > > > layer and old-style keyboard.c. In ruby this is no longer necessary
> > > > > as the new-style keyboard.c registers itself directly to the input
> > > > > layer.
> >
> > You still need keybdev.c with 2.5.25. It will be a few weeks before we
> > will migrate the console system to the input api.
> 
> No problem. The main problem isn't keybdev.c but pc_keyb.c. On PPC I just 
> disabled most of pc_keyb.c by adding this to asm/keyboard.h:
> 
> static inline void kbd_init_hw(void)
> {
> }
> 
> and removing the corresponding #define. Then atkbd.c and i8042.c can be used 
> without problems.
> 
> > > > That's right, I'm working on the merge right now.
> > >
> > > And now part#1 is in 2.5.25!! Yaayyy! Thanks Vojtech!
> >
> > Just a few more steps to go. I submited the console patches to Linus. Now
> > to wait for them to go in.
> 
> Well, what are a few weeks more, I'm waiting for 2 years now for this code to 
> go in.

I'll be pushing a lot this week, and possibly manage to switch away from
keybdev.c this week also. There might not be a complete switch to
James's console code , just a hacked keyboard.c, but that'll work for
the time being.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs