Re: [PATCH 2.5.59] support japanese JP106 keyboard on new console.

[Osamu Tomita <tomita@cinet.co.jp>]

I have a question.

Hiroshi Miura wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> After re-writting a console layer, a japanese keyboard is not supported (or degraded).
> This patch fixs it.
> 
> A USB keyboard driver may have same problem, but I don't have one.
> 
> --- linux-2.5.59/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c 2002-12-03 07:59:41.000000000 +0900
> +++ edited/linux-2.5.59/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c  2003-01-24 09:13:11.000000000 +0900
> @@ -309,6 +309,12 @@
>         if (atkbd_command(atkbd, &atkbd->oldset, ATKBD_CMD_GSCANSET))
>                 atkbd->oldset = 2;
> 
> +       if (atkbd->id == 0xab02) {
> +               printk("atkbd: jp109(106) keyboard found\n");
> +               param[0] = atkbd_set;
> +               atkbd_command(atkbd, param, ATKBD_CMD_SSCANSET);
> +               return 5;
> +       }
>  /*
>   * For known special keyboards we can go ahead and set the correct set.
>   * We check for NCD PS/2 Sun, NorthGate OmniKey 101 and
> @@ -531,6 +537,12 @@
>         else
>                 memcpy(atkbd->keycode, atkbd_set2_keycode, sizeof(atkbd->keycode));
> 
> +       if (atkbd->set == 5) {
> +               atkbd->keycode[0x13] = 0x70;  /* Hiragana/Katakana */
I'm interesting in the reason to use keycode 0x70 for 'Hiragana/Katakana' key.
Please clarify.

Regard,
Osamu Tomita