Re: Extra keycodes

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Fri Feb 24 2006 - 22:58:47 EST


On Thursday 23 February 2006 12:53, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Several laptops have keys that are intended to show battery status. In
> order to present a consistent view to userspace, it would be nice to
> have a standard keycode to map them to. linux/input.h doesn't currently
> provide anything appropriate. What's the correct way of allocating
> another keycode?
>

Just post a patch adding it to input.h and we'll discuss... Who is intended
user? What interface is expected to be used (evdev)?

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Dmitry
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