Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Jun 2001 11:02:39 -0400 | From | Michael Rothwell <> | Subject | Re: keyboard hook? |
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Thanks, I'm loking through your driver now. Does the input api already/currently support ps2 keyboards?
-M
On Sat, Jun 02, 2001 at 08:40:04PM -0700, James Simmons wrote: > > Hi! > > Your best bet for a kernel driver is to use the linux input api like > the usb keyboard do. The drivers are pretty simple to write and since all > the keyboard drivers will be port over to this api it will save a lot of > work done the road. If you need help let me know. I will be glad to help. > It sounds alot alike the p2 to serial driver just placed in our CVS. You > can access our CVS by doing > > cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxconsole.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/linuxconsole login > > cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.linuxconsole.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/linuxconsole co ruby > > The driver is in ruby/linux/drivers/input as ps2serkbd.c. > > > I'm beginning the process of writing a driver for the "Qoder" > > keyboard-fob barcode scanner made by InterMec. It communicates with the > > host computer using the PS/2 port by way of a "dock" that sits in > > between the keyboard and the computer. > > > One of them is "turn > > numlock light on," which I can do with an ioctl from userspace (as root, > > anyway), but also caps lock, num lock and carriage-return scancodes. > > EV_LED > > > The CueCat driver written by Pierre Coupard also modifies the keyboard > > driver. It would be nice if it was possible to load modules that hook > > into keyboard processing without requiring a kernel patch. And perhaps > > there is, but I haven't run across it yet. > > input api :-) > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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