From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
To: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 23:59:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ADA9853.AA79BDB5@transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104160654.f3G6sHu477292@saturn.cs.uml.edu>
"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
>
> H. Peter Anvin writes:
>
> > This means you don't have to configure two levels (scancodes ->
> > keycodes and keycodes -> keymap); since currently the keycodes are
> > keyboard-specific anyway there is no benefit to the two levels.
>
> The medium-raw level ought to be what the X11R6 protocol uses.
> Then the keyboard-specific stuff can be removed from XFree86,
> and there would be one less mapping to configure.
>
Uhm, doesn't work that way.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-16 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-13 13:02 [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3 Jan Dvorak
2001-04-13 22:21 ` Guest section DW
2001-04-13 23:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-16 6:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-04-16 17:41 ` Guest section DW
2001-04-16 19:52 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-16 23:53 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-17 5:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-04-16 6:54 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-16 6:59 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-04-14 18:12 ` Jan Dvorak
2001-04-15 6:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2001-04-15 16:40 James Simmons
2001-04-17 16:55 James Simmons
2001-04-17 17:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-17 17:51 James Simmons
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