Re: ioctl to keyboard device file

["P.Manohar" <pmanohar@lantana.cs.iitm.ernet.in>]

n Wed, 11 May 2005, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> >       I want to add a new ioctl to keyboard driver device file which will
> > perform the work of copying user space data  sent to it into kernel
> > space and send those characters  to handle_scancode function of keyboard
> > driver.. Now I want to know
> >
> > 1) what is the device file corresponding to keyboard (is it
> > /dev/input/keyboard).
> > 2) where file operations structure is defined for that.
> > 3) where the those ioctls handled(not found in keyboard.c).
> >
> > Any small help is appreciated.
>
> why not using uinput for this job?

Hai,
  Thanks for the solution.  I did the above task, by defining a new
character device driver and sending ioctl to it. and calling
handle_scancode from it. Now I want
to do the same task with in the keyboard driver. For that I need to send
ioctl to keyboard device file.
For that only I asked the
above doubts.

regards,
P.Manohar.
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