linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Input: implement sysrq as an input handler

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Date:	Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:06:41 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Input <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Input: implement sysrq as an input handler

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:00:43PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Any chance of the user being able to avoid the SysRQ events getting to the
> > handle, e.g. by opening the input device in exclusive mode or something like
> > that?
> 
> Yes, it is a possible to suppress SysRq by grabbing an input device.
> This possibility exisst with the current implementation too though -
> after all legacy keyboard driver implemented as an input handler as
> well.
> 
> ... or am I answering a question different from the one you asked? ;)

No, that's exactly what I wanted to know.

What about SAK?  That thing *has* to be untrappable.

Even for the SysRQ debug events, I'd feel better if we could have a class of
system input handlers that cannot be suppressed to use for these things.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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