[PATCH] support for HW_SKIP_CONSOLE breaks use by blind people

Samuel Thibault sthibault at debian.org
Mon Dec 31 17:36:57 PST 2012


Michal Suchanek, le Mon 31 Dec 2012 19:22:13 +0100, a écrit :
> why is that patch needed?
> 
> It is quite non-obvious why would dummy driver require a console under
> any circumstances. It does not render anything anywhere so does not
> use console for anything.

The console *is* needed for keyboard input.

Again, the use case is blind people who have use of possessing an actual
screen, and thus don't have any, and thus have to use the dummy driver.

Samuel


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