In times of sun keyboards and usb keyboards, keyboard raw mode has no
longer good sense. People already had problems with it on powerpc:
system then behaves different if you use different kind of
keyboard. We should better let world know raw mode is doomed to dead.
Pavel
--- clean/drivers/char/vt.c Sat Oct 23 20:54:46 1999
+++ linux/drivers/char/vt.c Sat Oct 23 20:44:35 1999
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
/*
* linux/drivers/char/vt.c
*
- * Copyright (C) 1992 obz under the linux copyright
+ * Copyright (C) 1992 Orest Zborowski under the linux copyright
*
* Dynamic diacritical handling - aeb@cwi.nl - Dec 1993
* Dynamic keymap and string allocation - aeb@cwi.nl - May 1994
* Restrict VT switching via ioctl() - grif@cs.ucr.edu - Dec 1995
* Some code moved for less code duplication - Andi Kleen - Mar 1997
*/
#include <linux/config.h>
@@ -542,6 +548,9 @@
return -EPERM;
switch(arg) {
case K_RAW:
+ /* We do not want userland code to know
+ about hardware details, do we? */
+ printk( KERN_WARNING "Warning: Deprecated keyboard RAW mode set by %s (%d)\n", current->comm, current->pid );
kbd->kbdmode = VC_RAW;
break;
case K_MEDIUMRAW:
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