On Sun, 03 Apr 2016, Yrjan Skrimstad wrote: > I get the following message when booting 4.6-rc1 on my Thinkpad T460s: > [ 4.067246] thinkpad_acpi: unknown version of the HKEY interface: 0x200 > [ 4.068819] thinkpad_acpi: please report this to ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > I also have a number of hotkeys that will not work unless I change the > code. The code changes I did to test this was very similar to this > patch from 2014: > > https://sourceforge.net/p/ibm-acpi/mailman/ibm-acpi-devel/thread/531F0073.7060103%40canonical.com/#msg32086976 > > However, this patch was never merged and I cannot find the reason for > this. Is there a chance this patch or a similar patch could be > accepted? Yes, but it needs someone that accepts to be responsible for it (i.e. handle bug reports by helping with the testing) at least until I get a thinkpad that has HKEY 0x200... > It seems that multiple of the newer Thinkpads report an HKEY interface > version of 0x200, so this would likely be very useful to a number of > users. Yes. > On a sidenote: the feature "has_adaptive_kbd" gets set on this laptop > (possibly all hkeyv 0x200 Thinkpads?). This laptop does not have an > adaptive keyboard, so this seems unintentional. Would there be a way > to better detect if there is an adaptive keyboard? Probably it can be detected through either ACPI method calls, or the presence or non-presence of some ACPI identifier/method. Fix this requires the cooperation of someone with HKEY 0x200 and an adaptative keyboard, and someone with HKEY 0x200 without an adaptative keyboard. Also, it is possible that the thinkpad does have an adaptative keyboard as far as the firmware is concerned, but no hardware interfaces that expose it. In that case, you'd have to test the resulting behavior, and report it in details. Worse comes to worst case, we can add a whitelist/blacklist to the driver and keep it up-to-date. I hope the behavior is "it doesn't do anything nasty" so it becomes a cosmetic issue... -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Find and fix application performance issues faster with Applications Manager Applications Manager provides deep performance insights into multiple tiers of your business applications. It resolves application problems quickly and reduces your MTTR. Get your free trial! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/ gampad/clk?id=1444514301&iu=/ca-pub-7940484522588532 _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
