Subject: Re: patch for wscons scrolling
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: David Ferlier <krp@freeshell.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/17/2002 17:46:57
Last time i bother you all, promise.

I was just thinking that adjusting all your settings via wsconsctl could be painful ... So why not doing something like that in the kernel :

options		WSCONS_SCROLL_COMBO		(Control_L + Alt_L)

this surely doesn't define the scrollup/down keys. We could add things for them in the kernel configuration, but it is making too much options.

Why i think it could be useful is in single user (as said before), because you're not going to put your wscons script that defines the modifiers at the very startup of the rc process.

Should we make a choice of the way to set keys (kernel || userland), or should we support both of them ? both are cool, but the kernel one forces the user to recompile the kernel ...

(note : setting keys via the kernel configuration could ease the "there's-no-pgup-and-pgdown-on-every-keyboard" problem. Each port maintener could put reasonable defaults in the config file of the corresponding architecture)

	David

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