[PATCH v2 2/2] Input: tegra-kbc - add default chromeos map

[Olof Johansson]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:19:30PM -0800, Olof Johansson wrote:
>> This adds a simple way to specify the ChromeOS-specific keyboard map
>> instead of the "standard" map that is used on other Tegra devices such
>> as Harmony-with-keyboard and Seaboard.
>>
>> I expect the number of different keyboard layouts to be quite limited,
>> and not many should be added over time. So instead of encoding the layout
>> in the device tree, with all the can of worms that entails w.r.t. agreeing
>> on a suitable binding, just add a property to specify that this is the
>> map to be used, and include it in the driver.
>>
>> If, over time, the number of mappings increase, the binding can be
>> updated to include a custom map as a new property, without having to
>> worry about backwards compatibility on existing devices.
>>
>
> I'd rather we did not make shortcuts and did the proper DT binding.
> Samsung folks want the similar thing so making a generic DT keymap
> parser and using it in the driver would be the best way.

Ok, fair point. I found the last posted version of the samsung driver
in my archives so I'll continue the discussion there (see separate
followup there).

> Another option is to simply loading proper keymap by the early
> userspace.

I would prefer to do it in hardware, mostly because I don't want to
have to add the keymaps to all possible distros I'd be interested in
running on this hardware. :)


-Olof