Re: Possible bug in keyboard.c (2.6.10)

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Wednesday 26 January 2005 22:16, Sasa Stevanovic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had some problems with my laptop's onetouch keys and it eventually led me to 
> keyboard.c file from 2.6.10 kernel (Vojtech Pavlik and others).  There may be 
> a bug in the file, please read below.
> 
> Well, actually, when all omnibook/messages/setkeycodes/hotkeys/xev/showkey etc 
> stuff is stripped off, what remains is that x86_keycodes array has only first 
> 240 members initialized, while remaining 16 are set to 0 due to [256]:
> 
> static unsigned short x86_keycodes[256] = { <only 240 here> };
> 
> (For my scenario, workaround was possible.)
> 
> I am not sure if this is a bug or not; it worked in 2.4.18 without workaround. 
> Might be that someone wanted to prevent reading invalid memory.  There are 
> many versions of the file/array definition found on the web, none of which has 
> a comment about this.
> 

>From Vojetch Pavilk:
> I'm sorry, but X only understands the RAW PS/2 protocol, and that one
>  can only transport keycodes up to 240.
>  
>  For keycodes above 240, XFree86 would either need to use the MediumRAW
>  mode, or use event devices for parsing the keyboard.
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0406.0/0544.html

You still did not describe what kind of problems you are having with your
keys.

-- 
Dmitry