Re: drivers/char/keyboard.c now unused?

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:41:15PM +1300, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I've been doing some work on porting my patches to the 2.4 version of
> software suspend to 2.5. Under 2.4, I use the shift_state variable from
> drivers/char/keyboard.c to provide interactive, step-by-step progression
> through the process. That is, there is an option for you to be able to
> press and release shift before the next stage starts. With the new input
> layer, drivers/char/keyboard.c still exists, but seems to be unused. Can
> I get confirmation that my understand is correct, and (if possible) a
> pointer to information on how I can reimplement the functionality under
> 2.5?

Your understanding is not correct, and drivers/char/keyboard.c is very
much used for all keyboard input in 2.5.

> Oh and before anyone has a hernia, I'm not intending to leave this
> functionality in the final version - its just for debugging purposes.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Nigel
> 
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Vojtech Pavlik
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