Re: keyboard - was: Re: Linux 2.6.0-test4

[Jamie Lokier]

Andries Brouwer wrote:
> Ha! We maintain two such bitmaps. And they get out of sync too.
> 
> You talk too easily. "If you receive a release event".
> But one does not receive release events, one receives bytes.
> The interpretation of those bytes belongs to the keyboard driver.
> 
> But i8042.c needs to know whether scancodes are releases
> in order to do its massaging of the scancodes before giving
> them to the keyboard driver.

Are you saying that it isn't possible for i8042.c to simply pass all
events (including duplicates) to the keyboard driver to sanitise?

-- Jamie
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