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Message-Id: <200710232333.08306.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:33:08 -0400
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To: Ryan Lortie <desrt@...rt.ca>
Cc: "Zephaniah E. Hull" <warp@...allh.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 Tuesday 23 October 2007, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-23-10 at 14:10 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > No, rfkill want to see keypresses, period. It does not care if there
> > are other applications also seeing the same keypresses, it just does
> > not want keypresses stolen from it.
>
> Right. This is exactly the problem. The current grab API exists to
> prevent keys from being delivered to normal users, but rfkill still
> wants to see them.
>
> No matter how you slice it, if both of these desires are to be satisfied
> then there needs to be some sort of a system to differentiate between
> rfkill and "normal users". That's what the priority is here.
>
And the solution is pretty simple - do not use grab.
--
Dmitry
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