On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:42:45PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Dmitry Torokhov > <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 07:43:56PM +0100, Christian Lamparter wrote: > >> The reason: Some new devices come with a WPS "Push Button". > >> And there's no code for them yet. > >> > > Yes, we can add a new key definition if you provide clear description of > > what the intended use is and if we can't map such use to any existing > > key definitions. > > I found one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Setup (if you > don't mind): > > There's the relevant part: (PBC stands for Push Button Control/Configuration?) > > "PBC Method, in which the user simply has to push a button, either an actual > or virtual one, on both the AP (or a Registrar of the Network) and the new > wireless client device (STA) > . > Support of this model is mandatory for APs and optional for STAs." > > And there are already a few potential users: > OpenWRT routers as well as some rt30xx, ar9170 and ar9271 devices. Is there anything currently in works that would make use of this button? I do not want to allocate keycode "for the future" which may never come. We did it with KEY_BATTERY but I do not think anyone actually uses it. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
