cvs commit: src/sys/dev/kbdmux kbdmux.c

[Brian Fundakowski Feldman]

On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:43:11PM -0800, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote:
> Scott,
> 
> [...]
> 
> > So what do we need to do to get this enabled and running by default and
> > get rid of the USB keyboard hack in the loader, as well as make the
> > keyboard flags sane and predictable?
> 
> few things, imo
> 
> 1) i'm pretty sure i want to get the following ukbd(4) patch in
> 
> ==
> 
> --- ukbd.c.orig Wed Mar 30 00:32:41 2005
> +++ ukbd.c      Thu Feb 23 17:18:37 2006
> @@ -1145,9 +1145,7 @@
>         state = (ukbd_state_t *)kbd->kb_data;
>         if (!(state->ks_flags & COMPOSE) && (state->ks_composed_char > 0))
>                 return TRUE;
> -       if (state->ks_inputs > 0)
> -               return TRUE;
> -       return FALSE;
> +       return ukbd_check(kbd);
>  }
> 
> ==
> 
> however, i'd like to give people a chance to comment on this
> 
> 2) integrate remained parts of the following patch
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~emax/kbdmux.diff.txt
> 
> (freefall:~emax/kbdmux.diff.txt)
> 
> the idea was that new keyboard will be attached to the kbdmux(4)
> automatically (if present). syscons(4) would first look for kbdmux(4)
> keyboard and then (if kbdmux(4) keyboard was not found) for any
> keyboard. if syscons(4) finds kbdmux(4) keyboard it will automatically
> attach all non-busy keyboards to the kbdmux(4).
> 
> one can use kbdmux(4) by simply
> 
> a) loading kbdmux(4) from the loader prompt (or compiling it into the kernel);
> 
> b) kldload'ing kbdmux(4) and then releasing active keyboard;
> 
> if, for whatever reason, one does not want to use kbdmux(4) then just
> do not load it and everything should be as it is right now.
> 
> 3) remove ukbd(4) entries from /etc/devd.conf
> 
> i think this should do it. any comments?

That sounds really good!

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