[hal-info PATCH] Rationalise HP keyboard map

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Tue Jun 3 05:08:50 PDT 2008


On Dienstag, 3. Juni 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> HP keymaps are all effectively identical, with the only interesting
> difference between whether it's a home or enterprise model. Home
> machines will have Pavilion in their model name and have touchpad
> disable and media player buttons - enterprise machines have presentation
> mode buttons. The 2510p appears to be unique in being an enterprise
> machine and having a touchpad disable button (the larger models don't,
> and nor does the nc2400 it replaces), so I've special-cased it.
>
> I've checked DMI data for all the existing models that were in this
> file, and believe that it will have equivalent behaviour on all of them
> - the precise behaviour may change because the same keycode was mapped
> to various random buttons for no obvious reason (the info button is
> certainly not intended to launch a web browser...) and it's now
> consistent across all machines.

Same comments from me as on Acer machines. And here we maybe set now keymaps 
for every Hewlett-Packard machine, this includes maybe also Desktop machines 
which don't need any mapping or use a different keyboard model which need 
different mapping.

Danny


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