This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
HID: apple: option to swap the 'Option' ("Alt") and 'Command' ("Flag") keys.
to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
hid-apple-option-to-swap-the-option-alt-and-command-flag-keys.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 43c831468b3d26dbe8f2e061ccaf1abaf9cc1b8b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nanno Langstraat <langstr@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 16:07:15 +0200
Subject: HID: apple: option to swap the 'Option' ("Alt") and 'Command' ("Flag") keys.
From: Nanno Langstraat <langstr@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 43c831468b3d26dbe8f2e061ccaf1abaf9cc1b8b upstream.
Use case: people who use both Apple and PC keyboards regularly, and desire to
keep&use their PC muscle memory.
A particular use case: an Apple compact external keyboard connected to a PC
laptop. (This use case can't be covered well by X.org key remappings etc.)
Signed-off-by: Nanno Langstraat <langstr@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/hid-apple.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-apple.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-apple.c
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ module_param(iso_layout, uint, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(iso_layout, "Enable/Disable hardcoded ISO-layout of the keyboard. "
"(0 = disabled, [1] = enabled)");
+static unsigned int swap_opt_cmd = 0;
+module_param(swap_opt_cmd, uint, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(swap_opt_cmd, "Swap the Option (\"Alt\") and Command (\"Flag\") keys. "
+ "(For people who want to keep Windows PC keyboard muscle memory. "
+ "[0] = as-is, Mac layout. 1 = swapped, Windows layout.)");
+
struct apple_sc {
unsigned long quirks;
unsigned int fn_on;
@@ -150,6 +156,14 @@ static const struct apple_key_translatio
{ }
};
+static const struct apple_key_translation swapped_option_cmd_keys[] = {
+ { KEY_LEFTALT, KEY_LEFTMETA },
+ { KEY_LEFTMETA, KEY_LEFTALT },
+ { KEY_RIGHTALT, KEY_RIGHTMETA },
+ { KEY_RIGHTMETA,KEY_RIGHTALT },
+ { }
+};
+
static const struct apple_key_translation *apple_find_translation(
const struct apple_key_translation *table, u16 from)
{
@@ -242,6 +256,14 @@ static int hidinput_apple_event(struct h
}
}
+ if (swap_opt_cmd) {
+ trans = apple_find_translation(swapped_option_cmd_keys, usage->code);
+ if (trans) {
+ input_event(input, usage->type, trans->to, value);
+ return 1;
+ }
+ }
+
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from langstr@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/hid-apple-option-to-swap-the-option-alt-and-command-flag-keys.patch
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