[PATCH] adbhid: make KEY_SYSRQ configurable on ADB based machines

Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho aris at cathedrallabs.org
Thu Sep 21 03:54:34 EST 2006


> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:44:59AM -0300, Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho wrote:
> > > This patch adds a sysfs entry on /sys/class/adb/keyboard0/sysrq_key to
> > > configure which key will be mapped to KEY_SYSRQ. This is needed to make
> > > sysrq usable on machines which doesn't have current sysrq key. This
> > > patch and the previous two ones has been tested for some days in my
> > > machine without problems.
> > any comments on this one?
> 
> The only thing I see is that each ADB keyboard device will have an entry
> in sysfs to change the sysrq key, but they will all set the same global.
> It's a little misleading, but I don't think it's a major issue. And
> before anyone asks, I have in fact had multiple ADB keyboards attached
> to a single machine. It was useful for multi-player games.
yup, I was expecting someone to show up and say it's possible :)
I'll fix this up, thanks Brad

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Aristeu




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