[systemd-devel] [RFC] Split keymap conversion functions to separate library

[Michal Sekletar]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 11:05:53AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Michal Sekletar <msekleta at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Currently systemd-localed does conversions from X11 keymap to VConsole keymap
> > and vice-versa. There was a request coming from Anaconda installer team at Red
> > Hat which was about splitting this functionality to separate library.
> >
> > I am curious if other people would be interested in such library and if systemd
> > upstream is good place for it.
> 
> No, we are not really interested in extending the support of the
> legacy kernel console keymaps or fonts handling. The facility
> is too broken, buggy, limited and unreliable to be supported. It
> is a nice "debugging tool", but not the technology we need today.

I've thought that we probably don't want to support such library. Thanks
for clarification and confirming.

> 
> All this will move to userspace and the insufficient kernel consoles
> will just go away.
> 
> Kay

Michal