Re: [PATCH 9/44] Support for scroll wheel on Office keyboards

[Paul Wagland]

On Mar 30, 2004, at 15:09, Pavel Machek wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > Apart from this concrete question - the number of keyboards and
> > mice is very large and growing by the day. I think it is hopeless
> > to try and teach the kernel about all details of each of them.
> > I think we should try to go for a keyboard/mouse definition file
> > maintained in user space and fed to the kernel.
>
> Well, if it can be maintained in userspace, it should be possible to 
> maintain, too.
> Plus it seems to me that some keyboards are compatible with others... 
> for example arima
> seems to generate same keycodes for "vol+" and "vol-" as compaq 
> nx5000...

Sure, it is possible to keep up, but if something is constantly 
updating then surely it is better to put that in userspace? That way if 
I buy a new (not currently supported) keyboard, all as I have to do is 
to update the userspace text file, and everything works. If it is in 
the kernel, then I have to upgrade my kernel, and for many users, this 
is not a trivial task. Indeed, for many users this then causes support 
issues (think enterprise distributions).

Just my thoughts,
Paul

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