Len, The two patches that follow this email update thinkpad-acpi userspace interface into a much friendlier shape, taking advantage of the new netlink functionality in the ACPI core. Please send them to Linus ASAP for merging, so that they get included in 2.6.23. That will make my life (and HAL's, as well as the user's) a lot easier... The solution currently in mainline is not nearly as nice and transparent as the one in these patches. As usual, these patches are available for git pull from: git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux-acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git for-upstream/acpi-release Shortlog follows: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh (3): ACPI: event: fix acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event call (the above patch was sent separately) ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: always enable input layer, add hotkey_report_mode ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.16 -- "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 - 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