Messages in this thread | | | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: Early keyboard initialization? | Date | Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:58:54 -0400 |
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On Friday 06 October 2006 16:42, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any reason for initializing the input layer and keyboards so > late? Since prevents from being able to perform alt-sysrqs early, and > blind people who use speakup would like to get early control over the > speech. Here is the patch that they use. >
It looks like the change will only work for non-USB input devices since USB subsystem is initialized much later.
Greg, is there a reason why USB can't be initialized earlier?
Btw, I don't think we need to initialize gameport early and maybe not entire input but split off input/keyboard in the same fashion that input/serio and input/gameport are split off.
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> > > --- /usr/src/linux-2.6.18/drivers/Makefile.orig 2006-10-06 11:34:15.000000000 -0400 > +++ drivers/Makefile 2006-10-06 11:34:15.000000000 -0400 > @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ > > obj-y += serial/ > obj-$(CONFIG_PARPORT) += parport/ > +obj-$(CONFIG_SERIO) += input/serio/ > +obj-$(CONFIG_GAMEPORT) += input/gameport/ > +obj-$(CONFIG_INPUT) += input/ > obj-y += base/ block/ misc/ mfd/ net/ media/ > obj-$(CONFIG_NUBUS) += nubus/ > obj-$(CONFIG_ATM) += atm/ > @@ -50,9 +53,6 @@ > obj-$(CONFIG_USB) += usb/ > obj-$(CONFIG_PCI) += usb/ > obj-$(CONFIG_USB_GADGET) += usb/gadget/ > -obj-$(CONFIG_SERIO) += input/serio/ > -obj-$(CONFIG_GAMEPORT) += input/gameport/ > -obj-$(CONFIG_INPUT) += input/ > obj-$(CONFIG_I2O) += message/ > obj-$(CONFIG_RTC_LIB) += rtc/ > obj-$(CONFIG_I2C) += i2c/ > - > 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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