On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 11:58 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Richard Hughes wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:10 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > The plan is to get all hotkeys sent to userspace through INPUT, using a > > > "hotkey fX" or something equally generic. I can't translate from fn+f3 to > > > fn+battery, as that's model specific knowledge. > > > > So you don't want to do any dmi-based matching in thinkpad_acpi at all? > > When the dmi kernel class is upstream this could be pretty easy, > > although I don't mind doing it in userspace with a keymap. > > DMI matching in thinkpad-acpi for firmware bug workarounds, and also module > autoload is OK. For model-specific knowledge related to hotkeys, it is not. > This is how upstream wants it, actually. Okay. > > > Well, worse come to worst, we can send them over ACPI. > > > > Ick :-) > > It may be the only choice. Adding new keys to input is frowned upon... I'll talk to some of the fd.o people and find out how easy it would be to get new keys if needed. It seems crazy we are using infrastructure, if the infrastructure can't cope with the new demands. I'll see what i can do. Richard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
