[patch] add keymap data to make random laptop vendor keys work
David Zeuthen
david at fubar.dk
Fri May 4 13:20:15 PDT 2007
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 17:48 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Lennart just told me he wrote a kernel module to export DMI
> information
> in modalias, so that driver that we could potentially load driver, and
> keytables from udev rules, rather than from HAL.
I wonder how that works on Solaris or FreeBSD... and I doubt udev is the
correct place for this anyway. Kay?
> It would also allow to load drivers such as ibm-laptop, sonypi, dcbdas
> (or whatever that Dell module is called) automatically, without hacks in
> startup scripts.
That's very useful though.
David
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