On Sat, 26 May 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Saturday 26 May 2007 13:31, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Add a sysfs interface to allow userspace to modify the mapping between > > ThinkPad hotkeys and the keycode input events they generate. > > No, please do not do that. We have a standard way to adjust keymap for > an input device via EVIOCGKEYCODE/EVIOCSKEYCODE ioctls on corresponding > event device; there is no need to invent another interface. Just define > getkeycodes() and setkeycode() methods for your input device and be done > with it.
Sure, I will change to the IOCTLs. Such stuff is exactly why I sent out a partway-done "don't merge it yet" patch set: I had a hunch that the code would need some changes as the documentation on how to use the input device in-kernel API is worth very little. IMO if there is an API that is dedicated to drivers (and not, say, kernel core), full documentation and keeping it up-to-date should be non-negotiable requirements for the initial merge in mainline, and any subsequent patches that touch it. Oh well. I am reading the corgikbd driver now, it looks sane enough to use as documentation. On that topic, am I to send SYNC events between key-press and key-release events? Just after a key-press+key release event? Or not at all for a EV_KEY ? And exactly what should go in the hardware port descriptor? I used module name/input device number relative to the module. THIS ONE REALLY NEEDS TO BE DOCUMENTED PROPERLY. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
