linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

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Date:	Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:37:34 -0400
From:	Ryan Lortie <desrt@...rt.ca>
To:	"Zephaniah E. Hull" <warp@...allh.com>
Cc:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@...e.cz>,
	linux-input <linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

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


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