Re: X evdev input patches, and a problem.

[Vladimir D. <vo...@mi...>]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:29:02PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote:
> > On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 21:52, Zephaniah E\. Hull wrote:
> > > Something comes to mind, but to be blunt it is still a hack, and it
> > > could easily result in a system with no keyboard at all if X crashes.
> > >
> > > Throw in a fake event, that tells the keyboard driver to ignore
> > > everything from that input device until it receives the command again
> > > with a different value.
> > >
> > > I don't really like it, but at the same time I don't see anything overly
> > > better.
> > I don't think that anything you do on the event interface should affect the
> > keyboard interface.
> >
> > Why not a special "disable output' ioctl on the keyboard interface?
>
> Possibly quite feasible, however I don't know the details of the
> keyboard interface, but I suppose if nobody else cares to do this,
> then I suppose I will look into it.
>

I think a while ago somebody on the kernel proposed a patch whereby any
device that had evdev opened was removed from sending events to the
console layer.

                    best

                      Vladimir Dergachev

> Zephaniah E. Hull.
> >
> > Brad
> >
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