Re: [PATCH] unswap the grave and 102nd keys on Apple Alu ISO keyboard

[John Horan <knasher@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 9:07 , Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> wrote:
> Okay, this has been there since 2007, so one would guess there must 
> be a
> reason for noone complaining about this for past 8 years. I'd rather 
> be
> careful here so that we don't introduce any regressions.
Just to follow up on this point specifically.  I actually have been 
able to find a number of people complaining about this issue[1].  
Including a patch that would have removed the quirk from this keyboard 
model, though aimed at a previous version of the code, that I guess was 
either not pushed upstream, or was rejected for some reason[2].
Looking at the code the only effect of the quirk is to swap these too 
keys, and googling for "iso_layout" and "hid_apple" shows that 
disabling this quirk is rather common advice for fixing apple 
keyboards, being mentioned on both the Ubuntu wiki[3] and the Arch 
one[4].

My issue I guess is that I have two keyboards using this module, one 
requiring the quirk, and another not.

[1]https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/214786
[2]https://launchpadlibrarian.net/13297091/0001-Remove-faulty-swapping-of-keys-for-Apple-USB-ISO-key.patch
[3]https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AppleKeyboard#Correcting_swapped_keys_and_wrong_keymaps_for_international_.28non-US.29_keyboards
[4]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apple_Keyboard#.3C_and_.3E_have_changed_place_with_.5E_and_.C2.B0