Re: [PATCH v2] Input: Allocate keycode for SNIP key

[Rajat Jain]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 1:31 PM Harry Cutts <hcutts@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2020 at 16:21, Rajat Jain <rajatja@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > New chromeos keyboards have a "snip" key that is basically a selective
> > screenshot (allows a user to select an area of screen to be copied).
> > Allocate a keyvode for it.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rajat Jain <rajatja@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > V2: Drop patch [1/2] and instead rebase this on top of Linus' tree.
> >
> >  include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h | 3 +++
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> > index 0f1db1cccc3fd..08c8572891efb 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
> > @@ -652,6 +652,9 @@
> >  /* Electronic privacy screen control */
> >  #define KEY_PRIVACY_SCREEN_TOGGLE      0x279
> >
> > +/* Selective Screenshot */
> > +#define KEY_SNIP                        0x280
> > +
>
> It's not very obvious to me what KEY_SNIP represents, without the
> comment above. Maybe you could call it something like
> KEY_SELECTIVE_SCREENSHOT, so that its purpose is more apparent to
> someone seeing it in use.

Sure, I do not have any preference, so I will change this to
KEY_SELECTIVE_SCREENSHOT.

Thanks,

Rajat

>
> Harry Cutts
> Chrome OS Touch/Input team
>
> >  /*
> >   * Some keyboards have keys which do not have a defined meaning, these keys
> >   * are intended to be programmed / bound to macros by the user. For most
> > --
> > 2.25.0.265.gbab2e86ba0-goog
> >