Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #2953 | Date | Mon, 07 Dec 1998 00:12:34 -0500 | From | Paul Barton-Davis <> |
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>> 3) Whats the rationale for the keycodes assigned to various escaped >> scancodes (E0_KPENTER etc.) ? I.e why is E0_KPENTER assigned keycode >> 96, instead of, say, 102 or 83. The comments say:
>The keycodes are the electronic codes generated in the keyboard when a >key is either pressed or released.
Sorry, but this is not true. Scancodes are generated by the keyboard. Keycodes are assigned by the kernel to a particular scancode. There isn't a 1:1 mapping, since some scancodes consist of more than a single byte.
--p
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