On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:14:04AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jul 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:52:19AM +0800, Harald Welte wrote: > > > So I vote for keeping those events in the driver - just as long as there > > > is no new standard mechanism for signalling brightness up/down button > > > events to userspace. > > > > There is - they should just be sent as KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP and > > KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN. > > Once bitten, twice shy. I understand these buttons in the Panasonic Let's > Note do NOTHING in firmware/hardware (i.e. if you don't hook something to > them, brightness is NOT changed)? no, they don't do anything in firmware/hardware. They just generate events, and the OS/driver need to take care of any action to perform. > Because if they DO anything else than just staying there prettly and telling > you they have been pressed, then you are **NOT** to issue > KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP/DOWN. thanks for making this clear. However, this doesn't apply to the panasonic laptop hotkeys. They really don't do anything unless the os/driver takes care of it. -- - Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://laforge.gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
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