Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 18:28:09 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Map extra keys on compaq evo
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Hi!

> > With accurate list "hotkeys" could run with no configuration, but I am
> > afraid maintaining accurate list of keys for each keyboard is way too
> > much work.
> 
> The lists need to be kept _somewhere_, so why not have a userspace
> database with a program that loads the description into the kernel at
> boot, possibly using DMI as a hint to what keyboard is connected?

Doing dmi blacklist from userspace is going to be pretty
painfull... Kernel already has all the infrastructure.

My preference is forget about providing list of keys (it never worked
anyway), and just fixup few notebooks we know...
								Pavel
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