On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:29:30PM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:22:21AM -0800, Simon Glass wrote: >> > Can the Linux key codes fit in 8 bits? >> >> That depends on your point of view. >> >> If you hack on X, then the answer is yes and you ignore the squeels of >> your users when certain key presses get misinterpreted. (The Psion LX >> platform, otherwise known as the Netbook Pro, suffered with this problem.) >> >> If you are a kernel hacker, the answer is no, because key codes currently >> go all the way to 0x300. > > For bootloader environment 0-255 range is probably sufficient though, > the upper keys are somewhat recent additions to the maps... To keep things in common it would be convenient to not cap the key code at 8 bits for everybody though, since we're looking at reaching agreement on a common solution between firmware and linux. And no matter what the size of the word is there will be need for a translation table. -Olof -- 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
