Re: ioctl to keyboard device file.

From: Marcel Holtmann
Date: Wed May 11 2005 - 12:18:54 EST


Hi,

> I want to add a new ioctl to keyboard driver device file which will
> perform the work of copying user space data sent to it into kernel
> space and send those characters to handle_scancode function of keyboard
> driver.. Now I want to know
>
> 1) what is the device file corresponding to keyboard (is it
> /dev/input/keyboard).
> 2) where file operations structure is defined for that.
> 3) where the those ioctls handled(not found in keyboard.c).
>
> Any small help is appreciated.

why not using uinput for this job?

Regards

Marcel


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