On 20-Apr-00 Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> Sure:
Gracias.
> With the new output format, I can tell that the released scancode is the
> pressed scancode + 128 (| 0x80). Cool :)
Yes, the kbd driver handles this automatically.
>> I've altered atkbd.c to grok the new keys, I also added 'power' and 'halt'
>> to kbdcontrol/syscons - so now the power button works 8-)
> Heh, cool :) This goes well with my small diffs to make the ATX power
> button a true 'panic', don't you think?
Damn straight :)
> Yeah, but along with stuff like this (usbd et al), we should have something
> in the kernel (thread?) to do most of it. A unified event daemon would
> probably be half in the kernel and half out of it, and it would provide a
> pretty clean interface for this kind of thing (when it's not vaporware).
Hmm OK.. I was thinking about something like apmd (and usbd) which spends most
of its time blocked waiting for events, but a unified daemon would be nice :)
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