Re: [PATCH v4] dell-wmi: Support new hotkeys on the XPS 13 9350 (Skylake)

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On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 09:45:45AM -0800, Darren Hart wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 09:17:47AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Darren Hart <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:46:23PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> > >> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 11:40 AM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > >> > On Tuesday 19 January 2016 15:07:47 Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> > >> >> The XPS 13 9350 sends WMI keypress events that aren't enumerated in
>> > >> >> the DMI table.  Add a table listing them.  To avoid breaking things
>> > >> >> that worked before, these un-enumerated hotkeys won't be used if the
>> > >> >> DMI table maps them to something else.
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> FWIW, it appears that the DMI table may be a legacy thing and we
>> > >> >> might want to rethink how we handle events in general.  As an
>> > >> >> example, a whole lot of things map to KEY_PROG3 via the DMI table.
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> So far, this doesn't send keypress events for any of the new
>> > >> >> events.  Depnding on whether we figure out exactly what needs to
>> > >> >> happen to get the wireless button working in time for Linux 4.5,
>> > >> >> we might want to temporarily handle it in dell-wmi.
>> > >> >>
>> > >> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Looks good,
>> > >> >
>> > >> > Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > >>
>> > >> Darren, if/when you apply this, can you fix up the last paragraph of
>> > >> the commit message?
>> > >>
>> > >>     This doesn't send keypress events for any of the new
>> > >>     events, as no models appear to require it.
>> > >>
>> > >> I wrote the old text before intel-hid landed.
>> > >>
>> > >> --Andy
>> > >
>> > > This had some problems applying to 4.5-rc1 (refactoring of handle_dmi_...). I've
>> > > done the merge, it builds, but I can't test it. Please have a look at the
>> > > dell-wmi branch and let me know if this is correct and working as expected.
>> > >
>> >
>> > It's probably okay, but I think you applied it out of order.  This
>> > patch was intended to be applied after the handle_dmi_xyz fixes.  If
>> > you back this one out, apply those, and then re-apply this, it should
>> > apply cleanly.
>> >
>> > --Andy
>>
>> Ah, thanks. Sometimes that gets lost in the INBOX, I was starting to think the
>> same thing as I went through the patchwork list though. I'll back it out and do
>> that. Thanks!
>
> Turns out I wasn't Cc'd on the dependent dmi fixes series. Please include me on
> Cc for patches where I show up as a maintainer.
>

Oops.  I cc'd platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and assumed that was
sufficient.  Sorry.

--Andy
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