Re: Asian keyboards and input.h KEY_* defines

[Franz S. <Fra...@la...>]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 07:17:18PM +0200, Franz Sirl wrote:
> If you could also patch the attached list of scancodes with the added
> stuff, I'd be grateful ...

Which attachment? Maybe you should checkin that to ruby :-).

> > Appended a new patch, which does
> > it like you suggest. Mind you that I still didn't touch keycodes 179 and
> > 180 which seem to disagree between input.h and evtest.c (which says they
> > are KPLeftParenthesis and KPRightParenthesis).
>
> Added to input.h

Thanks. I've got another report now on the USB KPComma key (0x85), is it safe 
to map that to KEY_KPDOT, or do keyboards with both of them exist?

> > Now I just have to pray to the Linux gods that Linus will accept the move
> > of the input drivers into drivers/input in 2.4, so I can rely on them in
> > the ADB HID driver even without CONFIG_USB defined.
>
> I hope Linus will accept it. The split (drivers/usb +
> drivers/char/joystick) already is causing trouble.

Any feedback from Linus yet?

> > As soon that happens and I tested
> > my code, I'll send you a clean adbhid.c for ruby.
>
> Great. Well, you can send it even if it's not tested - ruby is a
> development tree, many things there don't event compile.

OK, I have to make some decisions still, but after that I'll send it.

> > I already said it and I say it again, I just _love_ the clean HID drivers
> > possible with the input layer :-).
>
> Thank you. You know, it really makes me happy hearing this.

Well, that's the way I feel after working with the code. There are some minor 
loose ends, but I really like the design.

Franz.