it is not good to add code to the kernel just to handle a user
input device that doesn't need it either.
> You can never be sure of the order of events if they are
> delivered to user space separately without time stamps.
The kernel delivers events on stuff like mice in the order
they occured. Its queued.
> It would also be good to get rid of raw keyboard mode.
We don't need to get rid of it. We need a hardcoded sequence of
the alt-ctrl-shift-meta-space variety that forces the mode back. The
problem with this is emacs has taken all such sequences already ;)
Alan