linux-kernel - defkeymap making machine useless (was Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support)

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20090618230704.GB8529@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:07:04 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, dmitry.torokhov@...il.com,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, jikos@...e.cz
Cc:	swetland@...gle.com, arve@...roid.com, linux@....linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.arm.linux.org.uk, san@...roid.com,
	rlove@...gle.com, greg@...ah.com
Subject: defkeymap making machine useless (was Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile
	g1 support)

Hi!

Debate is about keymaps:

 Ok, I created something useful in the meantime. Question is, what to
 do with the new keymap? I can obviously keep it at local patch,
 but...

 PC defkeymap.map makes HTC Dream useless.

 HTC Dream defkeymap.map makes PC useless :-(.

> > Yeah, I wasn't sure how to handle this.  We try to keep the msm/dream
> > stuff in a state that doesn't break other parts of the tree, but there
> > doesn't seem to be support for different keymaps for different
> > devices.
> 
> How it's supposed to work is that you have a specific keyboard driver
> and that emits PC keyboard codes into the core kernel using a
> translation table in your driver.

Of course, Dream does  that.  But that's not _nearly_ enough. Dream
lacks keys such as: esc, arrows, symbols (/;'[]\-=). That means that
for +, you can't press shift-=, you need to press altgr-P.

So yes, mapping keycodes helps (at least you get a-z,0-9), but that's
basically it, and keys it has are not enough to actually type loadkeys
/foo/bar/baz.map :-(.

									Pavel
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/