Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:47:32 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RESEND] fix HID quirks for aluminium apple wireless keyboards | From | "Phil Endecott" <> |
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Paul Collins wrote: > "Phil Endecott" <phil_tuhck_endecott@chezphil.org> writes: > >> Why do you set HID_QUIRK_APPLE_NUMLOCK_EMULATION ? I don't know what >> that quirk really does, but since these keyboards have neither a >> numeric keypad nor a numlock key I can't see any benefit. > > From a quick skim of the code (drivers/hid/hid-input.c) it looks like > it's supposed to allow a laptop-style numeric keymap mapping to be > enabled with F6, but I can't make it do anything here. Perhaps it is > best removed after the hid-bus merge, otherwise there'll be different > quirks in different places for the same devices.
The general policy seems to be to make these keyboards behave the same on Linux as they do with Macs. My guess is that they don't have any numeric keypad emulation feature on Macs - can anyone confirm? In that case it shouldn't be enabled. Personally, I wouldn't like to accidentally press F6 (e.g. pressing all the fn keys in turn looking for the "right one"), and then discover that half of the letter/punctuation keys were broken, and have no idea how to "fix" it.
Phil.
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