Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1 of 3] Fix keymap handling for vnc console

[John Haxby <john.haxby@oracle.com>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> John Haxby wrote:
>> Fix keymap handling for international keyboards
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Haxby <john.haxby@oracle.com>
>>
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>
> Doing an in place sort of a literal array is probably not a great 
> idea.   Why does the array need sorting?  The indenting is really 
> screwed up here.
>
The size of the array is dramatically larger than it used to be -- over 
1000 entries -- so a linear search over about 200 keysyms is, I thought, 
a little excessive for linear search and would take an appreciable time 
at start up.  It also seems to me that more keysyms might need to be 
added in future: the choice was a one-off sort in the vnc_keysym.h 
definition which is prone to future editing errors or the one-off static 
sort in the code.  I tossed the arguments back and forth with my stuffed 
penguin and came down in favour of sorting the array: it's a technique 
I've used before when I wanted robust code at the expense of a little 
initialisation overhead.  Why do you think it's not a good idea?  I'll 
happily revisit the notion.

I have no idea why the indenting is screwed up -- it wasn't.   I think 
the Christmas Elves must've got at it.

Read and understood the remainder of the comments.   I'll re-submit the 
patches tomorrow -- thanks for looking.

jch