Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759541AbXJYFia (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:38:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755565AbXJYFh7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:37:59 -0400 Received: from ns3.mountaincable.net ([24.215.0.13]:41199 "EHLO ns3.mountaincable.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755189AbXJYFh6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:37:58 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab. From: Ryan Lortie To: "Zephaniah E. Hull" Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik , linux-input In-Reply-To: <20071024153508.GG26573@aehallh.com> References: <20070609084800.GR6362@aehallh.com> <1193191094.32696.2.camel@moonpix.desrt.ca> <200710232333.08306.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> <20071024153508.GG26573@aehallh.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:37:34 -0400 Message-Id: <1193290654.15893.2.camel@moonpix.desrt.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 791 Lines: 20 On Wed, 2007-24-10 at 11:35 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > We need a way to, at the absolute minimum, unbind the keyboard from the > text console. The current solution sucks for things like rfkill. > > I'm not convinced that Ryan's fix is any better, but just saying that X > should open the console and ignore the characters is simply not an > option as far as I am concerned for X. Can you think of any other way to separate things like rfkill/evdev from things like the text console that's less hacky than my 'priority' scheme? Cheers - 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/