From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re (hello?): [PATCH] Let keyboard notifiers modify key codes
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:01:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090109220144.6b99ed72@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090109214357.GH5073@const.famille.thibault.fr>
> > Surely that is just a new keymap ?
>
> No. That would mean a lot of keymapSSS. Doing it the keymap way
Why - its an algorithmic question about how to edit them - remember you
can edit keymaps in programs at runtime and live.
> This really is a problem that is orthogonal to keymaps: I'm here talking
> about _physical_ keys remapping, not remapping what is printed on them
> (which is done after that).
Ok so this is analogous to the X key remapping. In which case a notifier
seems as sane as any other way to perform the action if you want it to be
an add on loadable feature.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-07 0:58 [PATCH] Let keyboard notifiers modify key codes Samuel Thibault
2009-01-09 21:23 ` Re (hello?): " Samuel Thibault
2009-01-09 21:35 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-09 21:43 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-01-09 22:01 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-01-09 22:23 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-01-12 22:36 ` Derek Fawcus
2009-01-12 22:51 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-01-13 1:06 ` Derek Fawcus
2009-01-13 1:45 ` Samuel Thibault
2009-01-15 7:40 ` Pavel Machek
2009-01-16 19:36 ` Samuel Thibault
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