Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 1999 22:37:41 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Mark keyboard RAW mode deprecated |
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Hi!
In times of sun keyboards and usb keyboards, keyboard raw mode has no longer good sense. People already had problems with it on powerpc: system then behaves different if you use different kind of keyboard. We should better let world know raw mode is doomed to dead.
Pavel
--- clean/drivers/char/vt.c Sat Oct 23 20:54:46 1999 +++ linux/drivers/char/vt.c Sat Oct 23 20:44:35 1999 @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ /* * linux/drivers/char/vt.c * - * Copyright (C) 1992 obz under the linux copyright + * Copyright (C) 1992 Orest Zborowski under the linux copyright * * Dynamic diacritical handling - aeb@cwi.nl - Dec 1993 * Dynamic keymap and string allocation - aeb@cwi.nl - May 1994 * Restrict VT switching via ioctl() - grif@cs.ucr.edu - Dec 1995 * Some code moved for less code duplication - Andi Kleen - Mar 1997 */ #include <linux/config.h> @@ -542,6 +548,9 @@ return -EPERM; switch(arg) { case K_RAW: + /* We do not want userland code to know + about hardware details, do we? */ + printk( KERN_WARNING "Warning: Deprecated keyboard RAW mode set by %s (%d)\n", current->comm, current->pid ); kbd->kbdmode = VC_RAW; break; case K_MEDIUMRAW: -- I'm really pavel@ucw.cz. Look at http://195.113.31.123/~pavel. Pavel Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please!
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