Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3

Guest section DW
2001-04-16T17:42:12Z

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 12:29:11AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> If we can try to keycodes in 8-bits it would be nice. The difficulty
> is that X cannot handle more than 8-bits without telling it you have
> multiple keyboards. The keycode (at least in X) is exported to
> X applications. This is certainly something to coordinate with the
> XFree folks about. If you really need more then 8-bits.

X keycodes are unrelated to Linux keycodes.