Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264892AbTIDXBJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:01:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265567AbTIDXBI (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:01:08 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:14477 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264892AbTIDXBD (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:01:03 -0400 Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 00:00:55 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: Andries Brouwer Cc: Chris Heath , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vojtech@ucw.cz, Ralf Hildebrandt Subject: Re: keyboard - was: Re: Linux 2.6.0-test4 Message-ID: <20030904230055.GO31590@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <20030903235647.C765.CHRIS@heathens.co.nz> <20030904204816.GD31590@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030905003436.A3105@pclin040.win.tue.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030905003436.A3105@pclin040.win.tue.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 20 Andries Brouwer wrote: > Ha! We maintain two such bitmaps. And they get out of sync too. > > You talk too easily. "If you receive a release event". > But one does not receive release events, one receives bytes. > The interpretation of those bytes belongs to the keyboard driver. > > But i8042.c needs to know whether scancodes are releases > in order to do its massaging of the scancodes before giving > them to the keyboard driver. Are you saying that it isn't possible for i8042.c to simply pass all events (including duplicates) to the keyboard driver to sanitise? -- Jamie - 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/