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In message: <20041116183549.GB11906@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
            Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> writes:
: I'm primairly intrested in solving the problem of machines with a AT
: keyboard controller (which currently attached non-existant keyboards to
: allow hot-pluging) and a USB keyboard.  The second case I'm intrested
: in is a LOM card.  In one case I've seen one present the keyboard as a
: USB keyboard which means you need to support two USB keyboards.

I think emax's vkbd isn't the same as the 'many to one' keyboard mux
driver that's been talked about to solve #1 of your two desires.  It
is designed to allow other sources of key events that come from
outside the kernel.  I don't think he's implementing the moral
equivalent of moused.

Warner