Hi

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:35 PM, Fredrik Hallenberg
[off-list ref] wrote:

Thanks I had no idea about the hwdb but I have tried it now, it works if I use

KEYBOARD_KEY_70031=reserved

Thanks for confirming!

on my nordic keyboard, but a US keyboard user would have to use
scancode 70032 instead. If you chose the wrong one the backslash key
will be disabled.

I don't think this is good solution as long as there is no way to
detect which version is used with the hardware matcher string.

Well, you can match on "country" tags. Currently, the device
identifiers contain vendor+product+version+country information. I
assume the "country" field is different between your keyboard and a
keyboard that swaps the key reports.

However I suppose udev should make it possible to do some kind of
script that does something similar to my original patch, that is,
detects which of the two keys in actually used and disables the other
one.

If you post your mod-alias line of your device (or better: all
information you can gather about the device), I can push it into hwdb.
It is up to Dmitry and Jiri to decide whether it makes sense to deal
with it in the kernel.

Thanks
David