Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755172AbXIAMHc (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 08:07:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753874AbXIAMHX (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 08:07:23 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:3227 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753809AbXIAMHW (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 08:07:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:19:32 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Samuel Thibault , Jan Engelhardt , linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, dtor@mail.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility Message-ID: <20070712191932.GA3947@ucw.cz> References: <20070821005718.GD3658@interface.famille.thibault.fr> <20070821204951.GC3658@interface.famille.thibault.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20070821204951.GC3658@interface.famille.thibault.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 981 Lines: 30 On Tue 2007-08-21 22:49:51, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > Jan Engelhardt, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 22:42:24 +0200, a ?crit : > > >- keycodes: even before translation into keysym. > > > > They can use the raw xlation for that. > > For userland, yes. This is for kernel modules. And should speakup be a kernel module? Why? It looks doable from userland: /dev/vcsa tells you what is on screen. Maybe you need to add poll() support? /dev/input allows you to get keys pressed. What is missing? Yes, you may want to do a small kernel module to read kernel bootup messages. Anything more? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/