Re: keyboard.h

Guest section DW (dwguest@win.tue.nl)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 02:11:12 +0100 (MET)


From pbd@op.net Sat Dec 5 19:29:06 1998

[ K_Fnn ]

>These stupid kernel developers always changed things in such a way
>that new features were added but people not using them did not notice
>any changes. It is called backwards compatibility.

Backwards to what ? The keycodes aren't an exported kernel interface.

Yes, they are. Every single keymap is a map from keycodes to something.
This means that if the keycodes are changed, all the keymaps must be
changed.

Best regards, Andries

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