On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 09:17:14PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Many tablet PCs have a button to indicate that the screen should be > rotated from landscape to portrait mode. There's currently no > standardisation here - a couple of drivers seem to be using > KEY_DIRECTION, and others are just being mapped to arbitrary F keys. So: > > 1) What is KEY_DIRECTION supposed to be for? Hmm, that is the good question. It looks like it's been introduced with the first patch for input events that Vojtech brought in 2.3 kernels and I do not see any users for it in mainline. Vojtech, do you remember by any chance what you intended it to be used for? > 2) If it's not suitable, do we still have space for a KEY_ROTATE? > We still have a few slots available but I'd lean towards KEY_DIRECTION (with better name maybe). -- Dmitry -- 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
