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diff --git a/Documentation/input/notifier.txt b/Documentation/input/notifier.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 95172ca6f3d2..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/input/notifier.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,52 +0,0 @@ -Keyboard notifier - -One can use register_keyboard_notifier to get called back on keyboard -events (see kbd_keycode() function for details). The passed structure is -keyboard_notifier_param: - -- 'vc' always provide the VC for which the keyboard event applies; -- 'down' is 1 for a key press event, 0 for a key release; -- 'shift' is the current modifier state, mask bit indexes are KG_*; -- 'value' depends on the type of event. - -- KBD_KEYCODE events are always sent before other events, value is the keycode. -- KBD_UNBOUND_KEYCODE events are sent if the keycode is not bound to a keysym. - value is the keycode. -- KBD_UNICODE events are sent if the keycode -> keysym translation produced a - unicode character. value is the unicode value. -- KBD_KEYSYM events are sent if the keycode -> keysym translation produced a - non-unicode character. value is the keysym. -- KBD_POST_KEYSYM events are sent after the treatment of non-unicode keysyms. - That permits one to inspect the resulting LEDs for instance. - -For each kind of event but the last, the callback may return NOTIFY_STOP in -order to "eat" the event: the notify loop is stopped and the keyboard event is -dropped. - -In a rough C snippet, we have: - -kbd_keycode(keycode) { - ... - params.value = keycode; - if (notifier_call_chain(KBD_KEYCODE,¶ms) == NOTIFY_STOP) - || !bound) { - notifier_call_chain(KBD_UNBOUND_KEYCODE,¶ms); - return; - } - - if (unicode) { - param.value = unicode; - if (notifier_call_chain(KBD_UNICODE,¶ms) == NOTIFY_STOP) - return; - emit unicode; - return; - } - - params.value = keysym; - if (notifier_call_chain(KBD_KEYSYM,¶ms) == NOTIFY_STOP) - return; - apply keysym; - notifier_call_chain(KBD_POST_KEYSYM,¶ms); -} - -NOTE: This notifier is usually called from interrupt context. |