linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] Input: add KEY_ROTATE_LOCK

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Message-ID: <CANRwn3R_SKzJyH3pNCpuzp+4--ebzG5VRCh9YEtj+F3VUJ1xew@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Jan 2018 08:23:56 -0800
From:   Jason Gerecke <killertofu@...il.com>
To:     Brüns, Stefan <Stefan.Bruens@...h-aachen.de>,
        Alex Hung <alex.hung@...onical.com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:     Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>,
        "platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org" 
        <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-input@...r.kernel.org" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] Input: add KEY_ROTATE_LOCK_TOGGLE

Any movement on this? Are we just waiting on an ACK/NAK from Dmitry?

Jason
---
Now instead of four in the eights place /
you’ve got three, ‘Cause you added one  /
(That is to say, eight) to the two,     /
But you can’t take seven from three,    /
So you look at the sixty-fours....


On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Jason Gerecke <killertofu@...il.com> wrote:
> Looks like this might also be needed for the MobileStudio Pro...
>
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=197991
>
> Jason
> ---
> Now instead of four in the eights place /
> you’ve got three, ‘Cause you added one  /
> (That is to say, eight) to the two,     /
> But you can’t take seven from three,    /
> So you look at the sixty-fours....
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Brüns, Stefan
> <Stefan.Bruens@...h-aachen.de> wrote:
>> On Freitag, 10. November 2017 00:34:53 CET Bastien Nocera wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 23:44 +0100, Stefan Brüns wrote:
>>> > The key has the same use as the SW_ROTATE_LOCK, but is used on
>>> > devices
>>> > where the state is not tracked by the hardware but has to be handled
>>> > in software.
>>>
>>> I'll let the input and hid subsystem maintainers have the final say
>>> here, though I think that sending out Win+O would be easier, as this is
>>> already something that desktops need to support for those devices that
>>> send the actual Win+O key combination when those buttons are pressed
>>> there.
>>>
>>> If we're going with the separate keycode, could you also file bugs
>>> against xkbd-common and xkeyboard-config to get the key added to the
>>> list of XF86 keysyms and to the default evdev keymap? Otherwise Wayland
>>> and X11 based desktops won't be able to use it.
>>
>> Filed for xkeyboard-config:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103998
>>
>> and xkb-common:
>> https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/issues/55
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Stefan
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