Re: [PATCH] Input: Support for a less exclusive grab.

From: Ryan Lortie
Date: Thu Oct 25 2007 - 01:38:32 EST


On Wed, 2007-24-10 at 11:35 -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
> We need a way to, at the absolute minimum, unbind the keyboard from the
> text console. The current solution sucks for things like rfkill.
>
> I'm not convinced that Ryan's fix is any better, but just saying that X
> should open the console and ignore the characters is simply not an
> option as far as I am concerned for X.

Can you think of any other way to separate things like rfkill/evdev from
things like the text console that's less hacky than my 'priority'
scheme?

Cheers


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