[linux-dvb] Re: Announcement: work on "dvb-kernel" finished

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Oliver Endriss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Michael Hunold wrote:
>
> > I've finished working on the "dvb-kernel" cvs tree, it's now ready to
> > be submitted. 8-)
> > ...
> > I would really appreciate it, if anybody with a 2.5.x development
> > system tries to compile, install and run the driver using this
> > patches, so that we can submit these patches to Linux before 2.5.66
> > comes out and breaks everything again. ;-)
>
> I've installed and run the patches successfully on a 2.5.65 kernel with 
> a full-featured card (DVB-S Nexus 2.1).
>
> There is a problem with the new input driver implementation in 2.5.x:
> The keyboard driver listens to all 'EV_KEY' events, i.e. pressing '5' on 
> the remote control will be recognized by the keyboard driver...
> Any idea how this could be solved?
that's kind of a design flaw in the keyboard input driver. If you don't 
use USB keyboards you can safely disable this driver, but on the long 
run it would be nice if somebody would add a 'send events from this 
device through the keyboard layer' flag to the input device struct.

Holger



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