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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:59:43PM -0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
>Em 18-11-2010 18:49, Jarod Wilson escreveu:
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:43:19PM +0100, David Härdeman wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:33:04AM -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
>>>> Mauro's suggestion, iirc, was that max scancode size should be a
>>>> property of the keytable uploaded, and something set at load time (and
>>>> probably exposed as a sysfs node, similar to protocols).
>>>
>>> I think that would be a step in the wrong direction. It would make the
>>> keytables less flexible while providing no real advantages.
>
>We can't simply just change NEC to 32 bits, as we'll break userspace ABI 
>(as current NEC keycode tables use only 16 bits). So, an old table will not
>worky anymore, if we do such change.

The idea was to do the conversion from <whatever> to 32 bits in
get/setkeycode.


-- 
David Härdeman