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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: acahalan@cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan),
	dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW),
	hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3
Date: 16 Apr 2001 23:30:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1zodgrt3e.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14pIo2-0001G8-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: Alan Cox's message of "Tue, 17 Apr 2001 00:53:15 +0100 (BST)"

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > Yes, but they could be. Changing the Linux keycodes is a major
> > break with compatibility. If the Linux keycodes are to be changed,
> > then they ought to be become something that would allow XFree86
> > to become keyboard-independent. Why invent yet another encoding?
> 
> You dont need to break compatibility. We have cooked, raw, semi-raw type modes
> for keyboard right now. We just need to add semi-raw-extended and raw-extended

Of course don't have raw via terminal escape string, which can be a royal pain
on a remote machine, if you know how to use the raw keycodes.  

Eric



  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-17  5:32 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 [this message]
2001-04-16  6:54     ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-16  6:59       ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-04-14 18:12   ` Jan Dvorak
2001-04-15  6:29     ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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