Re: ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

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On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:46:26AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> How do you know that this is a "passive keypress"? Can you put another
> (better) soundcard in a docking station? Woudl the firmware still
> control that card (doubtful)? Do we want the same keys to control that
> card's volume?

This is absolutely possible. In that case I'd expect the hotkeys to 
start controlling the card mixer's volume, but that's a policy decision 
that would have to be taken in userspace by an application aware of 
everything that's happened.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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