[OE-core] [RFC] keymaps and kernel version

[Andrea Adami]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Andrea Adami <andrea.adami at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> while testing some new kernels I found out a broken keymap.
> After short research I could identify the cause in
> recipes-bsp/keymaps/files/keymap.sh:
> ...
> KERNEL_MAJMIN=`uname -r | cut -d '.' -f 1,2`
> if [ -e /etc/keymap-$KERNEL_MAJMIN.map ]; then
>    loadkeys /etc/keymap-$KERNEL_MAJMIN.map
> fi
> ...
>
> $ uname -r | cut -d '.' -f 1,2
> 3.2
>
>
> I realized we are still using some old keymap-2.6.map and this doesn't
> match with KERNEL_MAJMIN.
> Now, renaming the keymaps to 3.2 would be only a band-aid,  3.3 is coming.
>
> Maybe we should check for keymap-3.map, i.e.
>
>  uname -r | cut -d '.' -f 1,1
>
>  or embed the machine name instead.
>
> Regards
>
> Andrea

Actually this all sounds remnant of linux 2.4 vs. 2.6 times.

Probably today we can just set:
...
if [ -e /etc/keymap.map ]; then
...

and the BSP layers will have to rename the overrides only once.

My 2 cents

Andrea