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Andrew Morton authored
From: Samuel Thibault <Samuel.Thibault@ens-lyon.fr> Still working on kernel facilities for braille devices, the need for being able to force blanking and unblanking raised: even when a key is pressed, the screen must remain blank, for privacy of the blind user who is typing on the keyboard and reading on its braille terminal. I merely added an ignore_poke variable which is set, and the screen blanked. Then, poke_blanked_console returns immediatly. Upon real unblank (because of an Oops or an explicit tioclinux), ignore_poke is reset to get back to normal operation mode. I had to remove the (unnecessary ?) call to unblank_screen from set_selection to prevent mouse selection unblanking the screen. I also added a way for processes to know whether the screen is blanked (the blind user might hence know whether people can read the screen).
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