On Fri 2009-01-09 22:43:57, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Alan Cox, le Fri 09 Jan 2009 21:35:55 +0000, a écrit : > > Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > 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". ...and that is ok if you autogenerate those keymaps, right? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
