[PATCH] Re: bad scancode for USB keyboard

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 05:30:50PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> #include <hallo.h>
> * Vojtech Pavlik [Wed, Jan 07 2004, 09:51:04AM]:
> 
> > The reason is that this key is not the ordinary backslash-bar key, it's
> > the so-called 103rd key on some european keyboards. It generates a
> > different scancode.
> 
> Fine, but there are a lot of USB keyboard that _work_ that way, where
> the "103rd" key is really positioned as the one and the only one '# key.
> And the current stable X release does NOT know about the new scancode.
> You realize that you intentionaly broke compatibility within a stable
> kernel release?

Good point. And I'm suffering the consequences already. Up to the
change, I didn't know that so many keyboards are actually using this
key, so I supposed it'll be a rather low-impact change. I stand
corrected now.

Linus, Andrew, please apply this fix:

ChangeSet@1.1511, 2004-01-11 19:41:05+01:00, vojtech@suse.cz
  input: Fix emulation of PrintScreen key and 103rd Euro key for XFree86.

diff -Nru a/drivers/char/keyboard.c b/drivers/char/keyboard.c
--- a/drivers/char/keyboard.c	Sun Jan 11 19:42:55 2004
+++ b/drivers/char/keyboard.c	Sun Jan 11 19:42:55 2004
@@ -941,8 +941,8 @@
 	 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47,
 	 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63,
 	 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79,
-	 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 93, 86, 87, 88, 94, 95, 85,259,375,260, 90,
-	284,285,309,311,312, 91,327,328,329,331,333,335,336,337,338,339,
+	 80, 81, 82, 83, 43, 93, 86, 87, 88, 94, 95, 85,259,375,260, 90,
+	284,285,309,298,312, 91,327,328,329,331,333,335,336,337,338,339,
 	367,288,302,304,350, 89,334,326,116,377,109,111,126,347,348,349,
 	360,261,262,263,298,376,100,101,321,316,373,286,289,102,351,355,
 	103,104,105,275,287,279,306,106,274,107,294,364,358,363,362,361,


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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR