On 7/17/07, federico ferri [off-list ref] wrote:

Dmitry Torokhov ha scritto:

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Dmitry? Any reason not to do this?

Recent kernels have the ability to remap keymap for USB keyboards via
EVIOCSKEYCODE ioctl (we allowed 0adjusting keymaps on PS/2 keyboards
for a long time). So instead of having the new parameter redefining
SysRq keycode Frederico can remap one of the keys on his keyboard to
generate KEY_SYSRQ. This way SysRq should still work if he plugs in
another USB keyboard that has SysRq key or a PS/2 keyboard.

would setkeycodes still just work for PS2 keyboards?
I upgraded to newer kbd-1.13 package (kernel 2.6.21), and while trying
to change sysrq keycode still I get the old error:

KDSETKEYCODE: No such device
failed to set scancode 38b7 to keycode 84

which I reported on gentoo a long time ago:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97388

(it doesn't use EVIOCSKEYCODE)
maybe I'm not picking up the right program?

EVIOCSKEYCODE support for HID (USB) went in in 2.6.22-rc1.

There is keyfuzz utility you can use to play with keymaps for a
particular device:

       http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/keyfuzz/

-- 
Dmitry