On Sat 2010-03-06 13:30:58, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Pavel Machek, le Sat 06 Mar 2010 07:54:57 +0100, a écrit : > > > That being said, usermode tools which want to set up the modifiers and > > > connect the input LEDs to them need an easy and proper way to do so. > > > Having central input::numlock and such still seems a good thing. > > > > This is something where I'm not too sure. Opening few files in > > sequence is not that hard to the userland so "group of leds" > > abstraction does not make too much sense... > > But then userland has to monitor keyboard hotplug. At the moment, > neither kbd nor console-setup use a daemon to handle keyboards, and I > doubt their authors will be happy to have to. Okay, that makes some sense. But you mentioned having per-keyboard led would be quite easy, it does not seem to be controversial, so perhaps that's way to go, first? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
