Mauro Carvalho Chehab [off-list ref] writes:

The removal of the existing keymaps from kernel depends on having an
application
to be called from udev to load the proper keymaps when a device is probed.

After having it for a while, we should deprecate the in-kernel keymaps
and move them to userspace.

Sounds like a plan.

I also think that it is important to remove the 7 bits limitation from
all drivers
and re-generate the keymaps, since they'll change after it.

I think the existing space/mark media drivers need to be reworked
completely.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa