From: Marco Chiappero <marco@absence.it>
To: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/25] sony-laptop: input core improvements improvements
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2011 18:58:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEA644D.3030109@absence.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110604164021.GA12552@kamineko.org>
Il 04/06/2011 18:40, Mattia Dongili ha scritto:
> sure it's possible but it's going to be a source of headache once sony
> changes their keyboard layout again (and it will happen).
Well, it depends on when, if it will happen in 2020 that's absolutely
fine. ;)
> Using generic key codes and remapping them in userspace where necessary
> worked for more than 10 years and is still working fine.
Sure and I consider to be a good alternative, but it looks to me like
being another workaround, it is fine for particular exceptions that need
a few remappings, but it should not be the rule, the driver extension.
That's why I was asking about this change.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-04 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <4DE9012E.5040207@absence.it>
2011-06-04 8:07 ` [PATCH 12/25] sony-laptop: input core improvements improvements Mattia Dongili
2011-06-04 10:42 ` Marco Chiappero
2011-06-04 12:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-06-04 13:11 ` Marco Chiappero
2011-06-08 8:26 ` Joey Lee
2011-06-04 15:21 ` Marco Chiappero
2011-06-04 16:40 ` Mattia Dongili
2011-06-04 16:58 ` Marco Chiappero [this message]
2011-06-05 22:24 ` Mattia Dongili
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