[BRLTTY] Focus Keyboard not working

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Aug 3 06:32:12 EDT 2023


Didier Spaier, le jeu. 03 août 2023 12:16:49 +0200, a ecrit:
> Le 03/08/2023 à 11:49, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > Samuel Thibault, le mer. 02 août 2023 22:30:21 +0200, a ecrit:
> >> Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 20 juil. 2023 19:28:37 +0200, a ecrit:
> >>> Samuel Thibault, le dim. 16 juil. 2023 23:33:02 +0200, a ecrit:
> >>>> Dave Mielke, le dim. 16 juil. 2023 12:10:39 -0400, a ecrit:
> >>>>> [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2023/07/16 at 00:33 -0400]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Best would be to fix the kernel.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> That's happening. My understanding is that, in the 6.4 kernel, Samuel
> >>>>> has an accepted patch which ignores the sysctl setting if the process
> >>>>> has CAP_SYS_ADMIN (which brltty does if invoked properly).
> >>>>
> >>>> It is not commited yet, but it was acked by two maintainers, so there's
> >>>> good hopes that it will be commited for 6.5, and backported to the
> >>>> affected stable kernels.
> >>>
> >>> It entered greg kh's tty-linus tree, in time for 6.5-rc3 or 6.5-rc4.
> >>
> >> It got into 6.5-rc4 indeed.
> >>
> >>> Then it will be backported to the stable series.
> >>
> >> It was indeed submitted for stable backporting, it will probably show up
> >> in 6.4.8.
> > 
> > Yes it's there.
> 
> I don't see it in 6.1.43 LTS. Is it planned to also backport it in 6.1?

6.1 is not affected by the issue.

Samuel


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