On Wednesday 18 February 2004 14:32, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <39796.1077013415_at_critter.freebsd.dk> > > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk> writes: > : Current our handing is that if it disappears, it's gone, if it comes > : back it's probably a new one anyway. > > Yes. If the hardware goes away and comes back, it can be very > difficult to know if you have the same hardware or different > hardware. For something as critical as a keyboard, would it be possible: - to keep the current layer in tact, but fool the layer that the device is always there? - store the last used keyboard somewhere and if no keyboard is found on boot, assume the last one used and start emulating it's existence All this of course, controllable by a kernel / bootloader / sysctl option, so that environments where keyboard switching is normal do not suffer. -- Melvyn ======================================================= FreeBSD sarevok.idg.nl 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #2: Mon Feb 16 19:59:52 CET 2004 root_at_sarevok.webteckies.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SAREVOK_NOAPM_NODEBUG i386 =======================================================
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