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From Andries.Brouwer@cwi ...
DateMon, 2 Feb 2004 12:34:00 +0100 (MET)
SubjectRe: 2.6 input drivers FAQ
> Well, I think it's a bad idea to have the userspace tool know about the
> e0 thing at all. It should be just opaque numbers to it.

But how is the user to invent these opaque numbers?
She uses showkey -s to see what scancodes a key produces,
and then setkeycodes to assign a keycode to them.

> I don't have a problem with swapping the set3 table, if setkeycodes
> works reasonably now for scancodes above 128.

Above 128, yes. Above 256, no.
The interface is a char - 8 bits only.

(So, right now, NR_KEYS > 256 is not useful.)
Andries
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