On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 08:44:32AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov 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... I assume you deem 'recent' to mean 8 years ago - they've been there since at least 2.6.9, which is where the problem I refer to above was first noticed. -- 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
