cvs commit: src/sys/dev/vkbd vkbd.c vkbd_var.h src/sys/modules/vkbd Makefile

[Maksim Yevmenkin]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:43:58 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp
<phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> In message <bb4a86c7041116093262758595 at mail.gmail.com>, Maksim Yevmenkin writes
> :
> 
> 
> >On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 18:04:56 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp
> ><phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> >> In message <200411161659.iAGGxNiX087329 at repoman.freebsd.org>, Maksim Yevmenkin
> >> writes:
> >>
> >>
> >> >emax        2004-11-16 16:59:23 UTC
> >> >
> >> >  FreeBSD src repository
> >> >
> >> >  Added files:
> >> >    sys/dev/vkbd         vkbd.c vkbd_var.h
> >> >    sys/modules/vkbd     Makefile
> >> >  Log:
> >> >  Add virtual AT keyboard driver vkbd(4).
> >> >  Not yet connected to the build.
> >>
> >> I thought we had one of those already ?
> >
> >when? where? did i miss it?
> 
> sys/dev/kbd (and various MD stuff all over the place) ?

perhaps i'm missing something here. the idea behind vkdb(4) is to
create a keyboard without a keyboard. that is to create a keyboard
that accepts scan codes from userspace and not from real hardware.
that is what vkbd(4) does. it creates a new keyboard (just like
ukbd(4) etc) and register it with kbd(4). basically what i want to do
is to obtain scan codes from bluetooth keyboard and then feed them
into the kernel. the idea is that bluetooth hid daemon looks for the
bluetooth keyboard, connects to it, switches active keyboard to
vkbd(4) , reads scan codes and feeds them into vkbd(4). when bluetooth
keyboard is gone the bluetooth hid daemon switches back to wired
keyboard. i do not think i can do it with kdb(4), can i?

max