Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 6 Mar 2010 13:30:58 +0100 | From | Samuel Thibault <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Route kbd leds through the generic leds layer (3rd version) |
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Pavel Machek, le Sat 06 Mar 2010 07:54:57 +0100, a écrit : > > That being said, usermode tools which want to set up the modifiers and > > connect the input LEDs to them need an easy and proper way to do so. > > Having central input::numlock and such still seems a good thing. > > This is something where I'm not too sure. Opening few files in > sequence is not that hard to the userland so "group of leds" > abstraction does not make too much sense...
But then userland has to monitor keyboard hotplug. At the moment, neither kbd nor console-setup use a daemon to handle keyboards, and I doubt their authors will be happy to have to.
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