Re: [PATCH 5.7-rc5] HID: apple: Swap the Fn and Left Control keys on Apple keyboards

On Fri, 15 May 2020, free5lot wrote:

This patch allows users to swap the Fn and left Control keys on all Apple
keyboards: internal (e.g. Macbooks) and external (both wired and wireless).
The patch adds a new hid-apple module param: swap_fn_leftctrl (off by
default).

Signed-off-by: Zakhar Semenov <redacted>
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This patch was created to eliminate the inconvenience of having an unusual
order of 4 left-bottom keys on Apple keyboards for GNU+Linux users.
Now it's possible to swap the Fn and left Control keys on Macbooks and
external Apple keyboards and have the same experience as on usual PC layout.

The patch has been heavily tested for about 5 years by community at:
https://github.com/free5lot/hid-apple-patched
The patch is small and straightforward. The modified version of hid-apple
is currently mentioned in wiki-documentation of several major GNU/Linux
distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, Arch, openSUSE).

Hi,

thanks for sending the patch.

The one in this mail was whitespace-corrupted by your mail client, but the 
one you attached to the other mail was fine, so I've used that.

For any next submissions, pelase send the patch in -p ab format and with 
full path in the kernel tree.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs