Re: keyboard problem with 2.6.6
From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jun 04 2004 - 09:14:16 EST
Hi!
> >> In a nutshell, I hate to be restricted by YOUR own imaginations
> >> of how people should hack the system.
>
> Vojtech> You're not. You're free to hack the kernel drivers.
>
> Not everyone using Linux is patient enough to explore the Wonderland
> of kernel hacking. Many immigrants from 2.4 are highly disappointed
> by the new but incompatible mouse/keyboard behaviours. Some of them
> returned to their 2.4 homeland because of this.
How can you propose moving keyboard handling to userland in one thread
and complain about 2.4-vs-2.6 incompatibility of inputs in another?!
2.4-vs-2.6 broke few strange keyboards. What you are proposing would
break everyone who has a keyboard.
Pavel
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