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

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On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 03:12:33PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP
> 
> Only if I start filtering it out when disabled by the mask.  This key is not
> to be sent to userspace unless explicitly configured to do so by something
> that KNOWS it will handle it right (hal).

I'm not aware of any other application that uses it.

> > KEY_VOLUMEUP
> 
> No.  This is handled in firmware in IBM thinkpads, and userspace only screws
> it up.  I am tired of watching people get this routed to the AC97 mixer by
> default.  That is a fringe configuration that only makes sense when using a
> dock, and with the audio tied to the dock's audio port, in *all* thinkpads
> but (_maybe_) the *61.

It should either generate a KEY_VOLUMEUP or it should generate something 
explicitly defined as KEY_VOLUMEUP_PASSIVE. The proposed configuration 
(send something that does nothing, but include an arbitrary scancode) 
adds complexity and does nothing other than avoid a (harmless) odd 
result.

> Let hal enable it if it needs it for OSD, and I sure hope HAL is wise enough
> to do passive handling only for the events that come from the thinkpad event
> device, because if one has an external multimedia keyboard, its volume keys
> should go to the AC97/HDA mixer.

That's fine. One will be coming from the i8042 (or USB) and the other 
will be coming from thinkpad_acpi. We already have the information 
needed to do something sensible there - we don't need to have different 
keycodes to determine which is which.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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