Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Mar 2004 20:55:52 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 9/44] Support for scroll wheel on Office keyboards |
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On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 03:09:43PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > Apart from this concrete question - the number of keyboards and > > mice is very large and growing by the day. I think it is hopeless > > to try and teach the kernel about all details of each of them. > > I think we should try to go for a keyboard/mouse definition file > > maintained in user space and fed to the kernel. > > Well, if it can be maintained in userspace, it should be possible to maintain, too. > Plus it seems to me that some keyboards are compatible with others... for example arima > seems to generate same keycodes for "vol+" and "vol-" as compaq nx5000...
I'm not interested in maintaining this in the kernel - the database would be rather large (say 100 kbyte) ...
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