KDGKBENT

Aaron Ucko (UCKO@vax1.rockhurst.edu)
Sun, 14 Apr 1996 21:19:15 -0600 (CST)

In drivers/char/vt.c, why does the code for KDGKBENT contain the statement
if (kbd->kbdmode != VC_UNICODE && KTYP(val) >= NR_TYPES)
val = K_HOLE;
? I feel that it should be unnecessary to set kbdmode to VC_UNICODE just
to get a keyboard map including any possible non-ISO-8859-1 keysyms.

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