Re: keymap rule selection for non-DMI platforms

["Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>]

On 08/16/2011 05:54:04 PM, Daniel Drake wrote:

> However, to complicate things further with another item on our TODO
> list: OLPC offers the same identical laptop models with two alternate
> keyboards - membrane and mechanical. This is for both x86 and ARM
> models. At the moment, we use the same keymap for both even despite
> differences in the keys, but we plan to improve on this in future
> since it is a bug that keys do not behave according to the symbols
> printed on them!
> 
> There is no other difference in the laptop other than the keyboard, 
> so
> this information could not be captured in the bare-bones info
> presented in DMI or by the theoretical system mentioned above, unless
> we were to do something hacky like encode the keyboard model in the
> product_name.

I don't understand.

Why is it a hack to encode the keyboard model in the product name?
When the keyboard is part of the product and there's two different
keyboards (not just mechanically, but with different keymaps)
why isn't it 2 product models?



Karl <kop@meme.com>
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