Re: faketty 0.05

[Aivils S. <ai...@un...>]

On Tre=F0diena, 11. Janv=E2ris 2006 11:22, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:43:03AM +0200, Aivils Stoss wrote:
> > On Pirmdiena, 9. Janv=E2ris 2006 16:33, Jean-Daniel Pauget wrote:
> > > > so do we have a complete working patch for 2.6.15 now somewhere?
> > > > where?
> >
> > - fix 2.6.15 compile issues
> > - module and service have separate install commands
> >
> > http://www.ltn.lv/~aivils/files/faketty-0.05.tar.bz2
> >
> > Unfortunately LED switch patch does not go into Linus tree
> > because of silly objection. May be X guys will request that
> > feature and then Andrew Morton applay it. If you use evdev
> > of X, then you have same trouble of LEDs.
>
> I generally only skim this list, could you please provide more details
> on the problem, and a link to the patch in question?

Patch fix case , when 1st X uses old tty layer and 2nd (3rd...) X uses
evdev driver. Without patch 1st X via tty switch LED's of all
connected keyboards.

http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.15/2.6.15-mm=
2/broken-out/input-keyboard_tasklet-dont-touch-leds-of-already-grabed-devic=
e.patch

Discusion:
> Dmitry Torokhov <dmi...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > On 1/6/06, Vojtech Pavlik <vo...@su...> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:36:41PM -0800, ak...@os... wrote:
> > >
> > > Fine with me.
> > >
> > > > From: Aivils Stoss <ai...@un...>
> > > >
> > > > Recent kernels allow exclusive usage of input device when input dev=
ice=20
is
> > > > grabbed. =A0keyboard_tasklet does not check device state and switch=
=20
LED's of
> > > > all keyboards. =A0However grabbed device may be use another LED ste=
ering
> > > > code.
> > > >
> > > > This patch forbid keyboard_tasklet switch LED's of grabbed devices.
> > > >
> >=20
> > The same objection as before - LED state is not synched back after
> > device is released. We probably need "ungrab" hook somewhere...
> >=20
>=20
> Ho hum. =A0I'll keep the patch queued and will doubtless resend it in a f=
ew
> weeks time. =A0One day someone will get sick of this and will fix it for=
=20
real ;)


We cannot sync back keyboard mapping, rate, LED state after "ungrab".
I cannot understand view point of Dmitry Torokhov. Someone realy get
sick if ungrabing became "hooked".

Aivils