On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 03:49:38PM -0500, Jerone Young wrote: > The issue is the way Windows does it is through a userspace daemon. By > making it OSI=Linux (just as with the Thinkpads currently already in > blacklist.c ..*61 line) the machines just send the OS a key press. And how does that userspace daemon receive the event? > Since newer thinkpads as well as most other OEM machines take this > model. It provides a much better user experience then what it is like > today. It's a model-specific quirk in generic code, so it's massively desirable to avoid this especially since it encourages other OEMs to do the same kind of thing. -- 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
