On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 12:45:55PM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:

Not really, what happens when the user presses alt-F1?

Well, if the console is switched to medium raw or raw mode, nothing
happens.

A way to tell the kernel that events from a given input device should
not go to the console has been needed since the very first time an X
driver allowed keyboard events from /dev/input/event<n>, and that
still has not changed.

And the ages old method that X has been using before the existence of
the input layer still works fine, as far as I know.

We just want a more flexible approach then what we are already using[0].

I'm fine with that, I just wonder whether attacking it on the input
layer side is the right way to do it: If you want to disable the
console, tell the console.

That way, we don't have to figure out which exact kernel input handlers
are console and which are not.

I'll see about writing something up when I get back to my computers[1]
and have things set back up[2].

Enjoy whatever computerless period you're planning!

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs