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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:03:29 -0800
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       kgdb-bugreport@lists.sourceforge.net,
       Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>,
       Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
       Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
       Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 23/28] keyboard, input: Add hook to input to allow low
 level event clear
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:21:28PM -0600, Jason Wessel wrote:
> When using a keyboard with kdb, on resuming the system there needs to
> be a hook to allow for the keyboard state to get reset.
> 
> This is mainly because there is no way to force the end user to hold
> down the original keys that were pressed prior to entering kdb.
> 

Instead of adding all the new hook can't you copy the bitmap of
currently pressed keys when you invoke kdb and theni, on exit, use
input_inject_event() to clear bitmasks in the devices?

-- 
Dmitry
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