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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2008-04-30 00:54:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-30 08:29:52 -0700 |
| commit | f7511d5f66f01fc451747b24e79f3ada7a3af9af (patch) | |
| tree | 934196c15e43077641e35286078a6753700a3e3d /include/linux | |
| parent | 730f412c08c13858f7681bac0a2770fbc9159fed (diff) | |
Basic braille screen reader support
This adds a minimalistic braille screen reader support. This is meant to
be used by blind people e.g. on boot failures or when / cannot be mounted
etc and thus the userland screen readers can not work.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix exports]
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/console.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/console.h b/include/linux/console.h index a5f88a6a259..a4f27fbdf54 100644 --- a/include/linux/console.h +++ b/include/linux/console.h @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ void give_up_console(const struct consw *sw); #define CON_ENABLED (4) #define CON_BOOT (8) #define CON_ANYTIME (16) /* Safe to call when cpu is offline */ +#define CON_BRL (32) /* Used for a braille device */ struct console { char name[16]; @@ -121,6 +122,9 @@ extern struct tty_driver *console_device(int *); extern void console_stop(struct console *); extern void console_start(struct console *); extern int is_console_locked(void); +extern int braille_register_console(struct console *, int index, + char *console_options, char *braille_options); +extern int braille_unregister_console(struct console *); extern int console_suspend_enabled; |