On Friday 21 September 2007 09:53, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Len Brown wrote: > > On Thursday 20 September 2007 09:50, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > Receive all pending hot key events at once from a single notification, and > > > don't complain if the queue is empty. > > Maybe I should have s/hot.?key/HKEY/ throughout this patch. > > The HKEY handler is the thinkpad-specific handler to message-pass > interesting events to the O.S. This include hot key pressing, but also > inclures: LID open/close, radio switch toggling, what looks like thermal > alarms, reason for wakeup (bay eject, whatever), notification of impending > undock (to show a helper to the user explaining how to undock a x40/x60, > etc)... and only IBM and Lenovo knows what else. Hot key presses are just > one of the many things reported through thinkpad HKEY events. > > > If this is really an event due to an hotkey (emphasis on the word KEY:-), > > why is it being sent via netlink instead of via input? > > Like I said, if it hit that branch, it is some other notification than a hot > key press :-) Yeah, it is non-obvious. > > I will rework the patch to use the word HKEY event instead of hotkey event > where applicable. Thanks for the clarification, Henrique. - 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
