On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 11:01:58AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:04:51AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > I don't think this is the proper layer to do the filtering, the filter > > should be done in i8042, not input core. The way you done it would kill > > any possibility of user assigning KEY_WLAN to a spare key on his or her > > keyboard and using it to control wireless cards that are not hardwired. > > Ok, that seems fine. > > > I would accept the patch that would add a filter in the form > > > > bool (*i8042_fillter)(unsigned char data, unsigned int flags, > > struct serio *port); > > > > I don't think we'd need to chain them into a list or something, one hook > > should be enough since I don't expect we'll have several platform > > drivers loaded on one box. > > So filter on the raw i8042 data rather than after any processing? > Wouldn't this require some level of state machine in the driver using > this functionality? > Yes, but it should not be too complex - with laptops you can be pretty much sure keyboard is in translated set 2 mode. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
