Now if I only did not forget to CC Vojtech first time around... On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:54:49PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > 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 -- 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
