Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750709AbWJHB7A (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:59:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750716AbWJHB67 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:58:59 -0400 Received: from gateway.insightbb.com ([74.128.0.19]:100 "EHLO asav00.insightbb.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750709AbWJHB67 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:58:59 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AR4FACr3J0WBToo1LA From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Samuel Thibault Subject: Re: Early keyboard initialization? Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2006 21:58:54 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Greg KH References: <20061006204254.GD5489@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> In-Reply-To: <20061006204254.GD5489@bouh.residence.ens-lyon.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610072158.55659.dtor@insightbb.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2076 Lines: 56 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 > > --- /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/ > -- Dmitry - 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/