Rationalizing X and console keymaps and configuration (was Re: Fedora 18 issues with translations and keymaps)

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 10:26 -0800, John Reiser wrote:
> On 01/03/2013 09:59 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> >  if
> > there's /etc/keyboard.conf specifying 'KEYBOARD=foo', [then] I should never
> > have to pass 'KEYBOARD=foo' as a cmdline to make foo my keyboard layout
> > in some case. As things stand I believe I do, for passphrase entry
> > during dracut.
> 
> The dracut emergency shell can be activated before achieving visibility
> of /etc/keyboard.conf from the intended root filesystem.  Thus a kernel
> boot parameter "KEYBOARD=foo" might be "necessary" if the global default
> (or in the value specified in the initramfs) is not appropriate.

true, yeah. It should at least read the config from the root filesystem
if it _is_ available, though, if it doesn't already.
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