Locating the keyboard driver (and replacing it)

[Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar <
chambilkethakur at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 10:27 AM, manty kuma <mantykuma at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Sannu,
>> I tried grepping lsmod with kdb. It doesnt show anything.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Manty
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Sannu K <sannumail4foss at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Try grepping for kdb. I have not tried this, just a suggestion.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>> Sannu K
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:16 PM, manty kuma <mantykuma at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > I have written a small module that toggles the capslock LED. To
>>> demonstrate
>>> > it i want to replace the Existing keyboard module with mine. I tried
>>> > lsmod|grep "key" without any success. also checked /proc/modules. I
>>> couldnot
>>> > find any clue regarding the name of the module i need to uninstall.
>>> So, How
>>> > can i remove the existing keyboard module and insert mine?
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > Manty
>>> >
>>>
>> I am be very sure(and thus please verify all of it), but I think keyboard
> drivers are statically compiled and they are tied to tty consoles.
> you may have to use one of the other testing mechanism like virtualization
> i.e. use usermode linux etc and compile your module along with they
> keyboard driver because keyboard drivers come up very early in booting
> process.
>
> Please read it as "I am _NOT_"
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