[hal-info PATCH] Rationalise Acer keyboard map

[Danny Kukawka]

On Dienstag, 24. Juni 2008, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:09:25PM +0200, ext Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > On Dienstag, 24. Juni 2008, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 10:07 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> >
> > [..]
> >
> > > > And what about the conserns regarding performance and mapping
> > > > unneeded keys (especially on machines that need no mapping which is
> > > > connected to loss of performance). There e.g. is no usefull way
> > > > blacklist machines if they need no mapping ... etc.
> > >
> > > Performance, give me a break. You're clutching at straws. If people are
> > > that concerned about losing that small amount of RAM, they'll probably
> > > turn off HAL in the first place. Or they just won't notice at all or
> > > care, because their multimedia keys work now.
> >
> > There were that much efforts to improve hal performance for some
> > milliseconds and to save some kbytes and now we waste these improvements
> > that easy. Thanks!
>
> If you're so concerned about performance as to be petrified of a few
> hundred extra bytes, just remove all the FDI files which don't apply to
> you.  Also, you could hack the FDI file yourself to only describe what
> you know to be true. 

Really a solution for a distribution. Really bad joke.

Danny