Re: [PATCH] Console keyboard events and accessibility

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Sat Sep 01 2007 - 08:26:56 EST


Pavel Machek, le Thu 12 Jul 2007 19:19:32 +0000, a écrit :
> On Tue 2007-08-21 22:49:51, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Jan Engelhardt, le Tue 21 Aug 2007 22:42:24 +0200, a écrit :
> > > >- keycodes: even before translation into keysym.
> > >
> > > They can use the raw xlation for that.
> >
> > For userland, yes. This is for kernel modules.
>
> And should speakup be a kernel module? Why?

Because userland only begins quite late in the boot process, and
userland may hang.

> What is missing? Yes, you may want to do a small kernel module to read
> kernel bootup messages.

That's what it's all about.

Samuel
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