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    XF86keysym.h: reserve a range for Linux kernel keysyms · 5dbb5b76
    Peter Hutterer authored
    
    
    The Linux kernel adds a few evdev keycodes roughly every other release. These
    aren't available as keysyms through XKB until they have been added as keycode
    in xkeyboard-config and mapped there to a newly defined keysym in the X11
    proto headers.
    
    In the past, this was done manually,  a suitable keysym was picked at
    random and the mapping updated accordingly. This doesn't scale very well and,
    given we have a large reserved range for XF86 keysyms anyway, can be done
    easier.
    
    Let's reserve the range 0x10081XXX range for a 1:1 mapping of Linux kernel
    codes. That's 4095 values, the kernel currently uses only 767 anyway. The
    lower 3 bytes of keysyms within that range have to match the kernel value to
    make them easy to add and search for. Nothing in X must care about the actual
    keysym value anyway.
    
    Since we expect this to be parsed by other scripts for automatic updating, the
    format of those #defines is quite strict. Add a script to generate keycodes as
    well as verify that the existing ones match the current expected format.
    
    The script is integrated into the CI and meson test, so we will fail if an
    update breaks the expectations.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
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