[BRLTTY] Focus Keyboard not working

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Jul 20 13:28:37 EDT 2023


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.

Then it will be backported to the stable series.

Samuel


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