Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 May 2005 23:04:49 +0530 (IST) | From | "P.Manohar" <> | Subject | Re: ioctl to keyboard device file |
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n Wed, 11 May 2005, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi, > >> I want to add a new ioctl to keyboard driver device file which will >> perform the work of copying user space data sent to it into kernel >> space and send those characters to handle_scancode function of keyboard >> driver.. Now I want to know >> >> 1) what is the device file corresponding to keyboard (is it >> /dev/input/keyboard). >> 2) where file operations structure is defined for that. >> 3) where the those ioctls handled(not found in keyboard.c). >> >> Any small help is appreciated. > > why not using uinput for this job?
Hai, Thanks for the solution. I did the above task, by defining a new character device driver and sending ioctl to it. and calling handle_scancode from it. Now I want to do the same task with in the keyboard driver. For that I need to send ioctl to keyboard device file. For that only I asked the above doubts.
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