linux-kernel - Re: Module for keyboard statistics / What should I look at?

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Message-ID: <20071202192808.GA5538@ucw.cz>
Date:	Sun, 2 Dec 2007 19:28:08 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Nelson Castillo <nelsoneci@...il.com>, dmitry@....cz
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Module for keyboard statistics / What should I look at?

On Tue 2007-11-27 20:07:16, Nelson Castillo wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> More than 2 years ago I wrote a small non-portable patch [1] to gather
> some statistics
> about keyboard usage[2] ( I show the counters with modulo 10 but still this is a
> security risk. Perhaps some random noise should be added ).

RSI prevention?

> My questions are:
> 
> * What should I read to do this in a module?
> * Is there a better way to to this? (perhaps using /dev/input/... and
> a user-space program) ?

Yep, I think you should be using /dev/input.

						Pavel
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