On Sun, 15 Sep 2013, Pali Rohár wrote: > I do not know where to ask this question, but I think that kernel > developers could help me. > > I have notebook with one special button on keyboard which is > designed for turning ambient light sensor on and off. By default > pressing button do nothing (I can turn ambient light sensor on/off > via sysfs platform wmi module). Button press is reported by > kernel input device AT Translated Set 2 keyboard and reports it > as button "touchpad off". > > Of course "touchpad off" is incorrect and I'd like to ask which > kernel key or button from /usr/include/linux/input.h should be > mapped for my ambient light sensor button? Is there already some? > And what is strategy for allocating KEY_* and BTN_* numbers? This is maintained by Dmitry, so he's the one to answer this. I am adding him to CC. > I'd like to know this, so udev could have correct DMI keymap > hooks and other userspace programs can understand ambient light > sensor button correctly. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- 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
