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    SubjectRe: 2.6.0-test5 vs. Japanese keyboards
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    Andries Brouwer and Norman Diamond:

    > > > I think no kernel changes are required to use Japanese keyboards
    > > > today.
    > > > (But kbd has to be recompiled with NR_KEYS set to 256.)
    > >
    > > I'm not convinced yet. defkeymap.c_shipped is included in the
    > > downloadable .bz2 file and it is inadequate.
    >
    > But defkeymap is inadequeate for German, it is inadequate for French,
    > why would it be adequate for Japanese?

    I think that if defkeymap.c_shipped were inadequate for German and French
    then you already would have fixed it. I don't have experience with those
    keyboards but would guess that defkeymap.c_shipped is probably adequate for
    loadkeys to load a working keymap for German or French.

    We have already discussed the fact that defkeymap.c_shipped is not adequate
    to load a working keymap for Japanese. In order to be capable of loading a
    working keymap, defkeymap.c_shipped needs patching. This is why the patch
    looked so big. Of course a working defkeymap.c_shipped should be generated
    automatically from a different keymap file which doesn't need nearly as big
    a patch. Nonetheless defkeymap.c_shipped is part of the kernel, isn't it?
    No matter how what method and how small an originating patch are used in
    getting this one fixed, it is a part of the kernel that is getting fixed
    here, isn't it?

    > It is just the random default you get when no keymap was loaded.

    It is that plus more. It includes limits that prevent certain keymaps from
    getting set when loaded.

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