[PATCH] Modify default behavior of apple keyboards

[Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com]

Matthew,

I understand.  Please disregard this patch then.  It's easily enough
configurable on the userspace end.

Thanks for the very complete explanation,

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 20:52 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> My experience is that the majority of users who run Linux on Apple 
> hardware are also used to MacOS, and so maintaining consistency with it 
> is worthwhile. That's entirely independent of the fact that altering 
> this in the kernel would change the default behaviour of the system for 
> users who are upgrading, which would be highly confusing.
> 
> Apple hardware tends to be intrinsically different to other PC hardware, 
> and we're limited in our abilities to make it behave identically - the 
> glaring lack of more than one mouse button is an obvious example of 
> this.
> 

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Mario Limonciello
Dell | Linux Engineering
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