Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:01:44 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re (hello?): [PATCH] Let keyboard notifiers modify key codes
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> > Surely that is just a new keymap ?
> 
> No. That would mean a lot of keymapSSS. Doing it the keymap way

Why - its an  algorithmic question about how to edit them - remember you
can edit keymaps in programs at runtime and live.

> This really is a problem that is orthogonal to keymaps: I'm here talking
> about _physical_ keys remapping, not remapping what is printed on them
> (which is done after that).

Ok so this is analogous to the X key remapping. In which case a notifier
seems as sane as any other way to perform the action if you want it to be
an add on loadable feature.
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