Re: EVIOCGKEYCODE - can't deduce arguments.

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 07:04:32PM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
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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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