On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 03:01:35PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > > In the DSDTs I've inspected there is an EC query method that looks like > > it handles events for the hotkeys, but I've never been able to find > > anything that will cause the GPE to trigger when the hotkeys are > > pressed. > Be careful, those EC event notifications do not show up in: > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe* > If no acpi irqs are happening (you said you've tried already): > watch -n1 "cat /proc/interrupts |grep acpi" > filtering the key events sounds appropriate. > I see you dig quite a bit already: I just went back and tried this specifically again to verify my memory is correct. Without toshiba_acpi loaded, I see nothing. With it loaded (with this patch series applied, which turns out to be important) I do see the interrupt count increase. Further investigation leads me to conclude that this activity appears to be associated with execution of the INFO method -- reading and writing a variable in the EC address space. Seth -- 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
