Hello dear Kernel-Developers, I've the problem that I've connected two keyboards (one via usb and one via ps/2) to my machine and I want to have different keyboard layout on it. While I was trying to find out what would be the best way to do that, I was somehow surprised that keyboards are not presented via a device file to userspace. My questions are: - Is there a reason not to have devices for keyboards? - If I would implement it into a recent kernel, would it have any chance getting into mainline? I know this would have some consequences for user space, at least those: - x11 (x.org/xfree) would have to modify their input device section for Linux for keyboards - loadkeys would have to be patched so one could specify which keyboard to change the layout for - kde/gnome would have to be changed in the manner that they support more than one keyboard Nico P.S.: Please cc me. -- Latest project: cinit-0.2.1 (http://linux.schottelius.org/cinit/) Open Source nutures open minds and free, creative developers.
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