Re: EVIOCGKEYCODE - can't deduce arguments.

[Brad H. <bh...@bi...>]

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On Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:54, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Because the USB keyboard tells us which keys it has, we don't need a
> scancode->keycode table. (We have something like that in the HID driver,
> because the HID codes aren't the same as Linux keycodes, but the table
> is fixed.)
Except that some people like to remap the keyboard layout. I guess you need to 
do it in userspace (ie X) now.

> For PS/2 you unfortunately cannot have a fixed table, and thus
> EVIOCSKEYCODE is needed.
>
> Btw, the classic KD* scancode loading ioctls should now be supported as
> well.
This is only on the legacy keyboard driver, right?
I'm really concentrating on the event interface.

Brad
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