[PATCH] Add keyboard event addon

[David Zeuthen]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:04 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 February 2006 11:45, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:37:27AM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > before in the FDI file, as my Toshiba keyboard is not detected as a
> > > keyboard. I'll go compile the acpi_toshiba module with the ubuntu
> > > hotkeys patch and see what happens.
> >
> > That's, uhm, interesting. Why doesn't your keyboard get detected as
> > being a keyboard?
> 
> Because IMO the complete input capability detection is broken (also for 
> touchpads, mouse, tablets ...). I work currently on a rewrite of the code.


Are you talking about hal/hald/linux2/probing/probe-input.c or something
else? Can you be more specific please? 

(I don't really disagree that probe-input.c may be broken, this code was
written a long time ago and no-one yet really used it..)

Thanks,
David