From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262004AbTIUMji (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Sep 2003 08:39:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262385AbTIUMji (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Sep 2003 08:39:38 -0400 Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([131.155.3.6]:21010 "EHLO kweetal.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262004AbTIUMjh (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Sep 2003 08:39:37 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 14:39:34 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: Vojtech Pavlik Cc: Andries Brouwer , Norman Diamond , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test5 vs. Japanese keyboards [3] Message-ID: <20030921143934.A11315@pclin040.win.tue.nl> References: <1b7301c37a73$861bea70$2dee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20030914122034.C3371@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <206701c37ab2$6a8033e0$2dee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20030916154305.A1583@pclin040.win.tue.nl> <20030921110629.GC18677@ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20030921110629.GC18677@ucw.cz>; from vojtech@suse.cz on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:06:29PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:06:29PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > There is a slight problem, and that is that NR_KEYS is (KEY_MAX+1) in > recent 2.6's and that's 512. And that doesn't fit into a byte. There > were some patches floating around to enhance the keymap loading ioctls. > They will be needed, along with a new version of loadkeys. Yes - a lot of trouble. As far as I can see, the space between 256 and 511 is never used. More in particular, there are lots of places where the kernel seems to assume that only 256 is used. So, instead of requiring new ioctls and new loadkeys etc I would prefer to make NR_KEYS 256, if possible. So the question is: why did you require 512? Andries