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

[Andrea Adami]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net> wrote:
>
> Op 5 mrt. 2012, om 14:12 heeft Andrea Adami het volgende geschreven:
>
>> 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.
>
> Or just drop it completely and let udev handle it?
>
> regards,
>
> Koen

Well, maybe as second step, first I'd say we need to fix the initscripts.

Cheers
Andrea


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