On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:05 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Richard Hughes wrote: > > > I have a patch that fixes and documents the whole stuff almost ready, it > > > will be pushed to the git tree soon. > > > > So, we still use a hardware mixer? That still makes most sense from my > > point of view as the events are still hardware. > > Yes, we will still get an ALSA mixer, it is the proper way to interface to > a mixer, anyway. Only now I know how to get interrupts to know when > something changes the mixer :-p Yes, <sarcasm>although I still like the polling approach</sarcasm> :-) > Should I filter out the volume up/down and mute hotkeys in the driver, if > the mixer is open? Right now, the patch allows userspace to remap them to > real keycodes, although it defaults to a very sane KEY_RESERVED. It would > be easy enough to never ever generate these keycodes. It's a hardware mixer we are talking to via ALSA, so yes, I think hide these events - it's not like you can remap them to KEY_EMAIL as they are tied to the hardware. > I *really* don't want to see those keys mapped to something that would go > and increase the AC97/HDA mixer volume up, etc... btw. and I *bet* that's > just the kind of stupidity people would pull off (because they have already > done it in the past numerous times). HAL guys won't do it, I documented it > properly to be sure of it, and I trust them to read docs. But what about > the authors of the typical "thinkpad helper" crapp or crapplet? Or should I > just ignore their existence, and let them break things for the unaware user, > if they want to? I'm going on a rampage of killing system daemons that talk to one type of hardware. Leave those to me. > > > BTW, I also got events for the LID switch on the same code path in a T43, > > > now. I will be adding EV_SW to thinkpad-acpi soon :p > > > > Okay cool. Could you give me a sneak peek at the patch, so I can try it > > on my x60? > > It is in the git tree, in the same input branch you used before. Brilliant, I'll try it out this afternoon. Thanks for your help with this, I really owe you a couple of beers. 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
