Re: 2.6 input drivers FAQ

Andries.Brouwer
2004-02-02T11:34:11Z

> Well, I think it's a bad idea to have the userspace tool know about the
> e0 thing at all. It should be just opaque numbers to it.

But how is the user to invent these opaque numbers?
She uses showkey -s to see what scancodes a key produces,
and then setkeycodes to assign a keycode to them.

> I don't have a problem with swapping the set3 table, if setkeycodes
> works reasonably now for scancodes above 128.

Above 128, yes. Above 256, no.
The interface is a char - 8 bits only.

(So, right now, NR_KEYS > 256 is not useful.)

Andries