Hi Manoj, On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:56:22PM -0600, Manoj Iyer wrote: > Dimitry, > > This quirk helps a few HP ProBooks to make brightness keys > typematic. Can you please tell me why you think its better handling > this in user space? Because there are too many broken laptops to quirk them all in kernel as every quirk takes non-swappable kernel memory whereas userspace solution only takes disk space. > I see other quirks similar to this in atkbd, > just trying to understand. These were added before I implemented support for allowing marking some of the keys as "force release" via sysfs attribute. > Yes, we did quirk this in udev rules to > make brightness keys works as expected. But thought it might help > others who see this issue with HP ProBooks by quirking it in kernel. > If you submit your quirk to udev maintainers you will help others exactly the same as with kernel patch. Thanks. -- Dmitry P.S. Please do not top post. -- 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
