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SubjectRe: [PATCH/RFC?] usb/input: Add support for fn key on Apple PowerBooks
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On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 00:39 +0100, Michael Hanselmann wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:07:33AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > I think having it in struct hid_device is safer. We might want to
> > dynamically allocate only for PowerBook keyboards, though, to save
> > memory.
>
> These two arrays take 128 Bytes. I don't think it's possible to write
> the code to allocate and set them in such short code. Beside of that, it
> would affect more code than only hid-input.c, at least hid-core.c would
> need modifications, too.
>
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt had the idea of a private field which each device
> can use for its own purposes. That's a task for another patch, tough.
>
> This patch implements support for the fn key on Apple PowerBooks using
> USB based keyboards.

Dimitri, I think the patch is good enough now and should go in for
2.6.16.

Thanks !
Ben.


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