On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM, anish kumar
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On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 09:43 +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:

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On 06/26/2012 08:47 AM, Dharam Kumar wrote:

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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 12:02 PM, anish kumar
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On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 23:24 +0530, Dharam Kumar wrote:

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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:47 PM, anish kumar
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On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 18:52 +0530, Dharam Kumar wrote:

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Hi,
I'm working on a module which is an input device and hence it needs to
report certain key events.

While browsing through the <linux/input.h>, I did find most of the
key-codes(which I need to use)already defined but not all.


Few of the KEY_xxx which i could not find are:


a.) A Key for going to the previous channel.
b.) Keys for Moving upper-right, lower-right, upper-left and
lower-left direction(probably a GUI(grid of icons),where you move
diagonally)
d.) A key for Subpicture (this 'subpicture' key is deeined in
CEA-931C).

I think you are interested in the user space implementation of
the keys reported by the input subsystem of kernel.
Keys reported by the driver->input subsystem->reported to user space.

I am not sure about linux way of reporting keys but in android the key
is reported at a particular sysfs file and this sysfs file is read by
eventhub.cpp.This file in turn is responsible for sending the events
to particular application and it is the responsibility of the
application how they interpret this keys.It can interpret events by
moving diagonally a pointer/touch or going left/right.

Thanks Anish ! To be clear, i just want to know the key-code
which will be used by the Input Subsytem of the Kernel.

For example, in <linux/input.h> file you will find a lot of #defines
like the below,mapping different kind of key events to some key-code
or value :
#define KEY_UP ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 0xXYZ
#define KEY_DOWN ? ? ? ? 0xABC and so on...

Now, I'm looking for key events like:
#define KEY_PREVIOUSCHANNEL ? <???>
#define KEY_RIGHTUP ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <???>
#define kEY_RIGHTLEFT ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <???>
#define kEY_SUBPICTURE ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? <???> and so on...

You are probably right , that Userspace reads the key-events/key-codes
from certain sysfs entries exported by Android Linux Kernel and these
key-codes/events will be handled accordingly by the respective
Framework/Application. But ?I'm really not interested in how and what
Userspace gets from Kernel.
I'm interested in what values the Kernel or input subsystem will
provide to such keys..

Do you have such keys in your device KEY_RIGHTUP?

Yes, my device is supposed to support such keys:
RIGHTUP --> moves cursor upper-right direction.
RIGHTDOWN ---> moves cursor lower-right direction.
and similar keys for upper-left and lower-left cursor direction.
Sadly, I could not find any #define in input.h file for such key events.

?From your response I interpret that you have some kind of custom
key-pad, or anything similar which is not a standard keyboard.

If there are no such defines in the Kernel, it's probably because no one
has had the need for them up to now.

I think the implementation should be done as Anish described beforehand.
Anyway you can add some defines to your Kernel if this is a requirement

and probably submit your first patch to the kernel but I am not clear
about the policy regarding adding new keys in the kernel.However sending

Hmm..If I do add some defines to my Kernel and submit the patch to the
Open source kernel, I need to be very clear
about how these keys will be used(which driver, use-case ,source of
these keys etc..).
I think I'm not at that stage right now..hopefully I can complete the
driver and kernel patches in some time and submit it :)

Thanks for your time and patience !!

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for you.

Regards,
Matthias

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Not sure if this is what you are interested in but would have been
better if you had described the problem in more detail.

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Does anybody have any idea about this?


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Dharam
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