Re: [PATCH 2.5.59] support japanese JP106 keyboard on new console.

From: Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 05:47:57 EST


On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 10:38:21AM +0000, John Bradford wrote:

> > > Hiragana_Katakana was not defined before and I want to define a
> > > keycode point.
> > > When I saw 2.4.20 pc_keyb.c source, I found all keycode below 127
> > > was used, then there is no room. But the comment tell me I can use
> > > 120-123, 125-127 with Japanese keyboard because these are not used
> > > on JP89/109 keyboards.
> > > (124 is, as you know, Yen key) THese are defined for a latin
> > > keyboards. So I use 120.
> > >
> > > How do you think about it?
> >
> > In 2.4 you can, in 2.5 the 'as long as no duplication occurs for any
> > single keyboard' is not valid anymore, and the keycode for
> > hiragana/katakana is defined to be 183 I think.
>
> We assigned 182 to hiragana/katakana for set 3 in 2.5, and left 183
> undefined. Should we change the 2.5 keycode to 183?

No - just bad memory on my side, it might as well be 183. ;)

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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