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Samuel Thibault 41ab4396e1 Console keyboard events and accessibility
Some blind people use a kernel engine called Speakup which uses hardware
synthesis to speak what gets displayed on the screen.  They use the
PC keyboard to control this engine (start/stop, accelerate, ...) and
also need to get keyboard feedback (to make sure to know what they are
typing, the caps lock status, etc.)

Up to now, the way it was done was very ugly.  Below is a patch to add a
notifier list for permitting a far better implementation, see ChangeLog
above for details.

You may wonder why this can't be done at the input layer.  The problem
is that what people want to monitor is the console keyboard, i.e. all
input keyboards that got attached to the console, and with the currently
active keymap (i.e. keysyms, not only keycodes).

This adds a keyboard notifier that such modules can use to get the keyboard
events and possibly eat them, at several stages:

- keycodes: even before translation into keysym.
- unbound keycodes: when no keysym is bound.
- unicode: when the keycode would get translated into a unicode character.
- keysym: when the keycode would get translated into a keysym.
- post_keysym: after the keysym got interpreted, so as to see the result
  (caps lock, etc.)

This also provides access to k_handler so as to permit simulation of
keypresses.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: various fixes]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:33 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov b981d8b3f5 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:

	drivers/macintosh/adbhid.c
2007-10-12 21:27:47 -04:00
Samuel Thibault 1ea3abf7fb Input: keyboard - add CapsShift lock
There exists a CapsShift lock called KG_CAPSSHIFT, but no associated
lock/slock, here is a patch which adds CapsShift lock and slock.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2007-10-11 00:49:56 -04:00
Samuel Thibault 9e3d3d07de Input: add more Braille keycodes
Some braille keyboards have 10 dots, so extend the Input braille keys
definitions.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2007-09-04 23:16:04 -04:00
Samuel Thibault b9ec4e109d Input: add support for Braille devices
- Add KEY_BRL_* input keys and K_BRL_* keycodes;
- Add emulation of how braille keyboards usually combine braille dots
  to the console keyboard driver;
- Add handling of unicode U+28xy diacritics.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-04-02 00:10:28 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00