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Re: 2.6.15-rc2



Hello Benjamin,

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:23:53AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On the other hand, "Fn" is handled in hardware for ADB keyboards and by
> the kernel (simulating hardware) afaik, in OS X, and I suspect it might
> be a good idea to do the same, that is, have a translation map of the HW
> keycodes when Fn is pressed in the kernel driver.
Why would this be a good idea?

Disadvantage: Not passing fn-key presses to the X-server would prevent
users from having their own mappings for fn-something combinations.

All the best,
Jochen
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