Re: [PATCH] Unisys pc keyboard new keys patch, kernel 2.4.3

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 01:59:31 EST

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"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
>
> H. Peter Anvin writes:
>
> > This means you don't have to configure two levels (scancodes ->
> > keycodes and keycodes -> keymap); since currently the keycodes are
> > keyboard-specific anyway there is no benefit to the two levels.
>
> The medium-raw level ought to be what the X11R6 protocol uses.
> Then the keyboard-specific stuff can be removed from XFree86,
> and there would be one less mapping to configure.
>

Uhm, doesn't work that way.

-hpa

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