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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.0906221131380.7457@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:33:31 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, 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 KH <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: defkeymap making machine useless (was Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile
 g1 support)

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > > 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.

I don't seem to have enough context, but wouldn't writing a separate serio 
driver, which would do all the needed translations be enough here?

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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