On Tuesday 22 March 2011 17:36, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Harald, Denys, All,
> 
> On Tuesday 22 March 2011 17:24:09 Harald Becker wrote:
> > >> Can we improve Busybox and add those functionalities? Attention:
> > >> Modifications at this point probably introduces an incompatibility to
> > >> current Busybox versions, ...
> > > The best way would be to evolve tovards using data formats
> > > and command-line options which are compatible with relevant
> > > standard tools.
> > 
> > That would be the loadkeys command and the keyboard table format
> > described in the keymaps(5) manual page. ... but that one is an ASCII
> > source table that needs complex parsing. That parsing, including dynamic
> > table handling, would require a lot of code and data space. I don't
> > think that this really hit's the Busybox "keep it small" philosophy.
> 
> What about the following:
> - busybox applet that loads binary tables as you suggest
> - script in the busybox source that converts an ASCII table into its
>   binary equivalent
> 
> > The standard tool "loadkeys" has an option "-b" to create the the binary
> > key tables required by Busybox.
> [--SNIP--]
> > The standard tools loadkeys "-b" option is especially designed to create
> > binary key tables in the format required by Busybox (see loadkeys manual
> > page).
> 
> Sorry, my loadkeys man page does not document '-b':
> $ loadkeys --version
> loadkeys: (console-tools) 0.2.3

This one has it:

# loadkeys --version
loadkeys from kbd 1.15

1.12 didn't. So it was added in 1.13-1.15 timeframe

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vda
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