Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/6] rename keyname '<' to 'less'

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Sat,  2 Jun 2012 06:54:25 +0800
Amos Kong <address@hidden> wrote:

> There are many maps of keycode 0x56 in pc-bios/keymaps/*
>   pc-bios/keymaps/common:less 0x56
>   pc-bios/keymaps/common:greater 0x56 shift
>   pc-bios/keymaps/common:bar 0x56 altgr
>   pc-bios/keymaps/common:brokenbar 0x56 shift altgr
> 
> This patch just rename '<' to 'less', QAPI might add new
> variable by adding a prefix to keyname, '$PREFIX_<' is not
> available, '$PREFIX_less' is ok.
> 
> For compatibility, convert user inputted '<' to 'less'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <address@hidden>
> ---
>  monitor.c |    9 ++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
> index 12a6fe2..ecfcaa4 100644
> --- a/monitor.c
> +++ b/monitor.c
> @@ -1302,7 +1302,7 @@ static const KeyDef key_defs[] = {
>      { 0x48, "kp_8" },
>      { 0x49, "kp_9" },
>  
> -    { 0x56, "<" },
> +    { 0x56, "less" },
>  
>      { 0x57, "f11" },
>      { 0x58, "f12" },
> @@ -1406,6 +1406,13 @@ static void do_sendkey(Monitor *mon, const QDict 
> *qdict)
>                  monitor_printf(mon, "too many keys\n");
>                  return;
>              }
> +
> +            /* Be compatible with old interface, convert user inputted "<" */
> +            if (!strcmp(keyname_buf, "<")) {
> +                pstrcpy(keyname_buf, sizeof(keyname_buf), "less");
> +                keyname_len = 4;
> +            }

I'm not against this change, but it breaks 'sendkey <-a'

> +
>              keyname_buf[keyname_len] = 0;
>              keycode = get_keycode(keyname_buf);
>              if (keycode < 0) {