[oe] [patch commit request] kdrive xserver: support for key codes 128-255

[Stanislav Brabec]

Junqian Gordon Xu wrote:
> On 01/30/2008 06:13 AM, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
> >> Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> >> Can you please elaborate what the application of this patch would mean
> >> for OE (besides fixing support for one specific obscure peripheral)? 
> 
> I guess I probably would be yelled at for not raising this before 
> committing your patch.
> 
> Is this patch specific to Zaurus clamshells, akita/spitz/c7x0? In other 
> words, are there any other devices benifiting from the extended keycode. 
>   I vaguely remember Dmitry asked about extended keycode for tosa, but 
> I'm not sure he's talking about the same thing.

No. It adds support for key codes 128-255 in general.

Let he test to assign these key codes in the kernel driver. He should
see them non-mangled in X.

Note that is cannot provide codes above 255 - it is a major limitation
of X11 protocol.


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Stanislav Brabec
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