Re: Detecting a keyboard

[Arndt S. <ab...@sr...>]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:30:39AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> > > We may need different keymaps on the different keyboards (indeed, this
> > > might be essential ; one of the few reasons a normal user might have
> > > multiple keyboards is to have different types)
> > USB keyboards don't support variable mappings. 
> 
> It is planned to have per-keyboard keymaps (keycode->keysym), though no
> scancode->keycode maps for USB.

Just curious: For what reasons do you plan to introduce per-keyboard
keycode->keysym maps, but not scancode->keycode maps? Is it because
the keycode->keysym map is the more general case?

Will these per-keyboard keymaps go into 2.6, or is this a feature to
be implemented later?

Thank you,
Arndt