Console events and accessibility
authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:39:17 +0000 (23:39 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:53:34 +0000 (11:53 -0700)
commitb293d758470e971253eec42b817bc9ef1213b228
treeaafc6011762436cf3076798fee7140145908852c
parentfe9d4f576324999ac521c931f3b3eee0c8e45544
Console events and accessibility

Some external modules like Speakup need to monitor console output.

This adds a VT notifier that such modules can use to get console output events:
allocation, deallocation, writes, other updates (cursor position, switch, etc.)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix headers_check]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/char/vt.c
include/linux/notifier.h
include/linux/vt.h