Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:28:09 +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... 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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