Generic all-purpose keycodes for gaming keyboards?

Generic all-purpose keycodes for gaming keyboards?

[Marty Plummer]

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Greetings,

As many of you are no doubt aware there has been a large amount of new 'gaming'
keyboards and mice entering the market from various manufacturers, each with
their own oddities and every developer that seeks to support them has in turn
came up with their own way to handle these keyboards. In particular my interest
is in setting up some standard way to handle these, especially those with macro
and/or profile buttons, such as mapping them to a set of specially purposed
keycodes (I've seen BTN_TRIGGER_HAPPY? used for this purpose, but I don't think
that was the original intent for those keycodes) just for use with these sort of
devices, eg, BTN_KEYBOARD_MACRO? and BTN_KEYBOARD_PROFILE? and so on. How doable
do you guys think such an infrastructure would be?

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