Hi Rick, On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:19:30PM -0600, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. wrote: > One of the sticking points I have with the G13 driver is that I'd like it > to have support for macros. The reason I'd like to support macros is that > the G13's raison d'etre is to allow the end user to customize the device > with their own macros. > > However, I've been looking around and I can't find any support for macros > within the kernel. > > In particular, I have support for getkeycode and setkeycode ioctl's. I was > thinking of supporting at least setkeycode to allow a standard way to set > a one key macro. Supporting getkeycode and setting keybit are more > problematic. > > If someone has already brought this issue up I apologize, but I couldn't > find any discussion on the linux-input list relating to macros (at least > other than preprocessor macros). > > Any suggestions? > I consider macro handling to be userspace task. If needed, macro sequences can be injected back into the kernel via uinput devices to be consumed by regualar applications. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
