On 2/27/07, Fausto Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Well, i have a 8042 controller "connected" to the keyboard controller that send information about battery and others to the keyboard interrupt and io ports in the format of keystrokes. I want a way to not alter atkbd but to create another driver that lives together with atkbd. Is there a way?
Depending on how big and box-specific the code is we could either add it to i8042 or you need to imaplement a pass-through serio port in your driver. You would filter out "interesting" bytes and pass the rest to the new serio port that your driver shoudl register. Tnen atkbd would bind to that new port and function as usual. The only problem is that you woudl need to bind you driver to the keyboard port from userspace (via sysfs - /sys/bus/devices/serioX/drvctl) -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/