Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:11:15 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Map extra keys on compaq evo |
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Hi!
> > > > With accurate list "hotkeys" could run with no configuration, but I am > > > > afraid maintaining accurate list of keys for each keyboard is way too > > > > much work. > > > > > > The lists need to be kept _somewhere_, so why not have a userspace > > > database with a program that loads the description into the kernel at > > > boot, possibly using DMI as a hint to what keyboard is connected? > > > > Doing dmi blacklist from userspace is going to be pretty > > painfull... Kernel already has all the infrastructure. > > > > My preference is forget about providing list of keys (it never worked > > anyway), and just fixup few notebooks we know... > > What about all those "multimedia" and "Internet" keyboards out there? > > Plus I don't think using DMI is a good idea. Many people use 2 keyboards > with their laptops - built-in and external and DMI mapping will sure be > wrong for external keyboard. Theoretically it should be possible to have > several completely independent keyboards (at least as far as > keycodes go).
Well, I only filled unused spots in mapping table. So it should not cause any problem unless you attach non-standard keyboard to your evo, and even in such case I cause no regression... Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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