Alan Cox, le Fri 09 Jan 2009 21:35:55 +0000, a écrit :

Samuel Thibault [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Came somebody have a look at this?  The need is real, the only question
that comes to my mind is whether notifiers are allowed to modify the
param they are given.  Since they are not marked const, I'd guess it'd
be ok?

The notifier code doesn't care.

I know, but I'm asking about current practice.

quoted

Make kbd_keycode() read param.value after calling the keyboard notification
chain, to let the callee change the translation on the fly. This for instance
permits to remap the physical positions of the keys independently of the
configured keymap, for e.g. single-handed people.

Surely that is just a new keymap ?

No. That would mean a lot of keymapSSS. Doing it the keymap way
would require to have us, us-revert-left, us-revert-right, en-uk,
uk-revert-left, uk-revert-right, etc. I really don't like that approach,
thus the "independently of the configured keymap".

This really is a problem that is orthogonal to keymaps: I'm here talking
about _physical_ keys remapping, not remapping what is printed on them
(which is done after that).

Samuel
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html