[BRLTTY] emulated keyboard and api clients?

[Mario Lang]

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> writes:

> Dave Mielke, le Fri 28 Apr 2006 19:21:10 -0400, a écrit :
>> [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2006/04/29 at 00:57 +0200]
>> 
>> >> If so, I think this is a problem.  We should probably
>> >> special-case PASSAT2 to still end up in the kernel as usual.
>> >
>> >By default yes, here is a patch.
>> 
>> Shall this patch be applied to the development stream?
>
> Yes if people are ok for AT2 events to _not_ be passed to brlapi clients by
> default (I am ok, I'd rather know Sebastien's opinion).

Yes, please apply this, the current default behaviour is rather problematic, if
not to say broken.  If the user only uses the external keyboard (which
is quite likely), and switches to the X console where
gnopernicus is running with BRLTTY configured as a braille backend,
the keyboard suddenly stops working, and you are not able to switch
back to the text console anymore.  This means to fix this, *every* BrlAPI
client would need to re-implement the uinput haindling, which is rather
silly and just not going to happen.
-- 
Thanks,
  Mario