On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:57:11AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > I really don't like KEY_FN_F1..KEY_FN_BACKSPACE either. What are they > supposed to do? Just being an unique value to be mapped onto something > useful? But why not use that useful keycode to begin with?
We've already got KEY_PROG* - is this not the sort of situation they're for? (ie, keys that aren't mapped to a specific purpose but would be potentially useful to userspace at the per-user level) > I'd rather leave the keys unmapped and rely on initsripts (possibly > with help from distributions vendors) to load proper keymap then add > something that must be retranslated over and over again. Changing the keymap is a privileged operation, so sending /some/ sort of keycode by default would probably be good. > Well, what kind of functions you would like them to have? You, as a > maintainer, can chose defaults. Since you (well, not you, the driver) > provide a way for a user to adjust keymap there should be no problem > even if someone does not like the values you chose. Having sensible > defaults is a good thing, otherwise many people will not even know > that they have these "separate" keys. Some of the Thinkpad keys send events even without there being any label, so I don't think there's a sane default other than leaving it up to the user. On the other hand, I'm not especially keen on sending literals like "FN_BACKSPACE" - it's hugely special-cased. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
