[hal-info PATCH] Rationalise Acer keyboard map

Daniel Stone daniel.stone at nokia.com
Tue Jun 3 05:02:48 PDT 2008


On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:56:51PM +0200, ext Danny Kukawka wrote:
> I'm not sure if this change is really such a good idea. With this change hal 
> would set keymaps on every single Acer machine, This would mean:
> 
> 1) set keymaps on Acer machines which need no mapping (e.g. TravelMate 4650 
> and other), this include the not really needed callout and the 'wrong' 
> entries with keymap data in HAL (incl. memory usage)
> 2) map more keys (20) than needed on machines which maybe need e.g. only 5 
> (e.g. a Aspire 1510)

Have you measured the benefits (memory etc) that come from having a
vastly simplified ruleset?

Cheers,
Daniel
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