It's easy to forget the responsibility of validating and safely copying
kernel parameters in code that is far away from syscalls. ioctl's are
one such example, and bugs there are just as dangerous as at the root
syscall level.
To avoid this case, utilize the AK::Userspace<T> template in the ioctl
kernel interface so that implementors have no choice but to properly
validate and copy ioctl pointer arguments.
Problem:
- `static` variables consume memory and sometimes are less
optimizable.
- `static const` variables can be `constexpr`, usually.
- `static` function-local variables require an initialization check
every time the function is run.
Solution:
- If a global `static` variable is only used in a single function then
move it into the function and make it non-`static` and `constexpr`.
- Make all global `static` variables `constexpr` instead of `const`.
- Change function-local `static const[expr]` variables to be just
`constexpr`.
We use a global setting to determine if Caps Lock should be remapped to
Control because we don't care how keyboard events come in, just that they
should be massaged into different scan codes.
The `proc` filesystem is able to manipulate this global variable using
the `sysctl` utility like so:
```
# sysctl caps_lock_to_ctrl=1
```
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
The end goal of this commit is to allow to boot on bare metal with no
PS/2 device connected to the system. It turned out that the original
code relied on the existence of the PS/2 keyboard, so VirtualConsole
called it even though ACPI indicated the there's no i8042 controller on
my real machine because I didn't plug any PS/2 device.
The code is much more flexible, so adding HID support for other type of
hardware (e.g. USB HID) could be much simpler.
Briefly describing the change, we have a new singleton called
HIDManagement, which is responsible to initialize the i8042 controller
if exists, and to enumerate its devices. I also abstracted a bit
things, so now every Human interface device is represented with the
HIDDevice class. Then, there are 2 types of it - the MouseDevice and
KeyboardDevice classes; both are responsible to handle the interface in
the DevFS.
PS2KeyboardDevice, PS2MouseDevice and VMWareMouseDevice classes are
responsible for handling the hardware-specific interface they are
assigned to. Therefore, they are inheriting from the IRQHandler class.
2021-04-03 11:57:23 +02:00
Renamed from Kernel/Devices/KeyboardDevice.cpp (Browse further)
