On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:17:12PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Life would be significantly easier if I could convey that information in the > kernel. Since I cannot, I effectively consider these keys to be "defective" > as far as the regular input device events are supposed to mean, and I don't > generate events for them. Any userspace application that can do anything with brightness keys needs to know how to speak to that specific hardware /anyway/ - on some machines that may be calling a userspace application, on others using an interface in /sys/class/backlight, on others calling out to X. There's no way to automatically make that decision, so it's fine to insist that they also take into account whether it's active or passive. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
