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Currently, V4L uses a scancode table whose index is the scancode and
the value is the keycode. While this works, it has some drawbacks:

1) It requires that the scancode to be at the range 00-7f;

2) keycodes should be masked on 7 bits in order for it to work;

3) due to the 7 bits approach, sometimes it is not possible to replace
the default keyboard to another one with a different encoding rule;

4) it is different than what is done with dvb-usb approach;

5) it requires a typedef for it to work. This is not a recommended
Linux CodingStyle.

This patch is part of a larger series of IR changes. It basically
replaces the IR_KEYTAB_TYPE tables by a structured table:
struct ir_scancode {
       u16     scancode;
       u32     keycode;
};

This is very close to what dvb does. So, a further integration with DVB
code will be easy.

While we've changed the tables, for now, the IR keycode handling is still
based on the old approach.

The only notable e...