[BRLTTY] Focus Keyboard not working

Didier Spaier didier at slint.fr
Thu Aug 3 06:16:49 EDT 2023


Le 03/08/2023 à 11:49, Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault, le mer. 02 août 2023 22:30:21 +0200, a ecrit:
>> Samuel Thibault, le jeu. 20 juil. 2023 19:28:37 +0200, a ecrit:
>>> Samuel Thibault, le dim. 16 juil. 2023 23:33:02 +0200, a ecrit:
>>>> Dave Mielke, le dim. 16 juil. 2023 12:10:39 -0400, a ecrit:
>>>>> [quoted lines by Nicolas Pitre on 2023/07/16 at 00:33 -0400]
>>>>>
>>>>>> Best would be to fix the kernel.
>>>>>
>>>>> That's happening. My understanding is that, in the 6.4 kernel, Samuel
>>>>> has an accepted patch which ignores the sysctl setting if the process
>>>>> has CAP_SYS_ADMIN (which brltty does if invoked properly).
>>>>
>>>> It is not commited yet, but it was acked by two maintainers, so there's
>>>> good hopes that it will be commited for 6.5, and backported to the
>>>> affected stable kernels.
>>>
>>> It entered greg kh's tty-linus tree, in time for 6.5-rc3 or 6.5-rc4.
>>
>> It got into 6.5-rc4 indeed.
>>
>>> Then it will be backported to the stable series.
>>
>> It was indeed submitted for stable backporting, it will probably show up
>> in 6.4.8.
> 
> Yes it's there.

I don't see it in 6.1.43 LTS. Is it planned to also backport it in 6.1?

Cheers,
Didier


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