Subject: Re: wscons keymaps (in-kernel and/or outside of it?)
To: Hernani Marques Madeira <hernani@tuners.ch>
From: Volker A. Brandt <vab@bb-c.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/10/2004 22:56:50
> 2) No maps at all in /usr/share/wscons
> 
> 3) All maps are available in the kernel and in /usr/share/wscons.
> There is a config option WSKBD_NOMAPS available then that sets USASCII
> as the only in-kernel map.
> 
> Point 3 is associated with the idea of a framework that Hubert
> mentionned; the keymaps could be written in such a manner that
> they can be (using make or a textprocessor) integreated into
> *.c files and converted into wsconsctl-friendly keymap files.
> So there is only one file to be maintained.
> 
> I'm willing to do whatever we decide here with all of the keymaps;
> personally I'm in favour of variant 3, because it combines 1)
> and 2) and so gives us the choice.

Option 3) sounds nice.  Do you mean that I could compile a kernel
containing just the one mapping (e.g. encoding=de) that I use, 
and no others?

Would option 2) allow that, too?


Thanks -- Volker
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