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authorMartin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>2011-01-07 12:12:57 +0100
committerMartin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>2011-01-07 12:12:57 +0100
commite302c4b33dfc7c8dbc64c32fd41f00dab1ae7f11 (patch)
treead3c88e3a6642d17c5821f5c08b28df2e8d65a82 /extras/keymap/README.keymap.txt
parentdf6b2cf5731a542b7b3198e057393975dd17da6e (diff)
keymap: Update README.keymap.txt
Drop orig-map.txt requirement, we don't really use it in practice. Also ask for sending stuff to the mailing list instead of Launchpad.
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diff --git a/extras/keymap/README.keymap.txt b/extras/keymap/README.keymap.txt
index 9c2d5dc16a..79d9971b1d 100644
--- a/extras/keymap/README.keymap.txt
+++ b/extras/keymap/README.keymap.txt
@@ -51,11 +51,7 @@ for inclusion you need to do the following steps:
In the following commands, the name will be written as "input/eventX" (replace
X with the appropriate number).
- 2. Dump current mapping:
-
- sudo /lib/udev/keymap input/eventX > /tmp/orig-map.txt
-
- 3. Find broken scan codes:
+ 2. Find broken scan codes:
sudo /lib/udev/keymap -i input/eventX
@@ -80,18 +76,16 @@ for inclusion you need to do the following steps:
this case as well, as it can be worked around in
/lib/udev/keymaps/95-keyboard-force-release.rules .
- 4. Find out your system vendor and product:
+ 3. Find out your system vendor and product:
cat /sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor
cat /sys/class/dmi/id/product_name
- 5. Generate a device dump with "udevadm info --export-db > /tmp/udev-db.txt".
-
- 6. Send the system vendor/product names, the key mapping from step 3,
- /tmp/orig-map.txt from step 2, and /tmp/udev-db.txt from step 5
- to the bug tracker, so that they can be included in the next release:
+ 4. Generate a device dump with "udevadm info --export-db > /tmp/udev-db.txt".
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/udev/+bugs
+ 6. Send the system vendor/product names, the key mapping from step 2,
+ and /tmp/udev-db.txt from step 4 to the linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org mailing
+ list, so that they can be included in the next release.
For local testing, copy your map file to /lib/udev/keymaps/ with an appropriate
name, and add an appropriate udev rule to /lib/udev/rules.d/95-keymap.rules: