Re: Linux event interface XFree86 Input driver

[Wayne W. <wh...@ma...>]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:

> Thank you again, this has proven absolutely invaluable for the keyboard
> side of the patch.
> 
> I'm still waiting for a solution to the console also getting the events,
> though the answers my head is giving back are not the ones I actually
> want.

You mean the keyboard events?  It seems like that requires a kernel patch.  
I'm using the simple patch below so that USB keyboards are not attached to
the console.  Of course, it shouldn't be hardcoded like this.

Cheers, Wayne

diff -ru linux-2.5.59/drivers/char/keyboard.c linux-2.5.59-wayne/drivers/char/keyboard.c
--- linux-2.5.59/drivers/char/keyboard.c	2002-12-09 19:26:49.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.5.59-wayne/drivers/char/keyboard.c	2003-01-25 09:02:28.000000000 -0800
@@ -1150,6 +1150,9 @@
 	if ((i == BTN_MISC) && !test_bit(EV_SND, dev->evbit)) 
 		return NULL;
 
+	if (!strncmp(dev->phys,"usb",3))
+		return NULL;
+
 	if (!(handle = kmalloc(sizeof(struct input_handle), GFP_KERNEL))) 
 		return NULL;
 	memset(handle, 0, sizeof(struct input_handle));