On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:44:19PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:25 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > This isn't an either/or situation. If you have a hal keymap then the > > system will still work. The question is what to do in the absence of > > hal. The kernel can either provide sane defaults (that might be wrong > > in a couple of cases) or it can provide keys that are pretty much > > guaranteed to do nothing. I think doing our best to make things work > > even if hal isn't there is sensible - if hal /is/ there, we've lost > > nothing. > > The only reason we set the keys to KEY_UNKNOWN is so we still emit acpi > events (and not change the interface) if we are using an old HAL to not > break stuff like acpid and tpd. I was thinking more of the ones that are just flagged as KEY_FN_F1 at the moment. -- 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
