On 四, 2012-08-02 at 15:46 +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 08:45:30AM +0800, Zhang Rui wrote: > > On 三, 2012-08-01 at 15:49 +0200, Luca Tettamanti wrote: > > > AMD ACPI interface may overload the standard event > > > ACPI_VIDEO_NOTIFY_PROBE (0x81) to signal AMD-specific events. In such > > > cases we don't want to send the keypress (KEY_SWITCHVIDEOMODE) to the > > > userspace because the user did not press the mode switch key (the > > > spurious keypress confuses the DE which usually changes the > > > display configuration and messes up a dual-screen setup). > > > This patch gives the radeon driver the chance to examine the event and > > > block the keypress if the event is an "AMD event". > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@xxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > Any comment from ACPI front? > > > > > it looks good to me. > > But I'm wondering if we can use the following code for ACPI part, which > > looks cleaner. > > I know this may change the behavior of other events, but in theory, we > > should not send any input event if we know something wrong in kernel. > > > > what do you think? > > I like it, it's cleaner. > I've split the patch in two pieces (one for video, the other for > radeon) and adopted your suggestion. > Great. Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> hmm, who should take these two patches? and which tree the second patch is based on? thanks, rui -- 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
