Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:52:10 +0300 (EEST) | From | Tuukka Toivonen <> | Subject | Re: /dev/psaux-Interface |
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Quite heated discussion, which is why I've avoided it =) But just to clarify my intentions... Dmitry raised some valid issues about the problems in the current version of psaux driver. I might try fixing some/all of them, however I believe I got a better idea.
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Sau Dan Lee wrote:
>I second! Let's free /dev/psaux. We want the /dev/psaux as in 2.4, >2.2, 2.0, ... We don't want a faked, censored one as in 2.6.0--5.
We shouldn't want _the_ /dev/psaux, but something similar, possibly better. What I'm after (and probably Sau Dan Lee too) is direct access to at least psaux-port.
My idea is to modify serio to expose all (or at least all unconnected) ports into userspace, where programs can write/read them just like the /dev/psaux before. Then it's just matter of symlinking /dev/psaux into correct device.
The biggest problem as I see is that this is much more intrusive change and a standalone kernel driver (as psaux.ko currently is) is impossible.
I'll be back when I have some code, before that, all suggestions are welcome (special thanks for Dmitry for insights). - 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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