Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: Always report scancodes for hotkeys

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On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > Do I have your word of honour that canonical is not going to start using
> > scancodes instead of keycodes in Ubuntu to trigger actions?
> 
> That would be silly. The reason for this change is to aid in collecting

...

> the data to update udev's keymaps for non-standard keys (see [1]). udev
> uses the EVIOCSKEYCODE ioctl to associate the correct key code with the
> scan codes. We don't intend to use scan codes instead of key codes.

Very well.  I *will* hold you to that.  I do not want a repeat of the
KEY_VOLUMEUP/DOWN "active notification" fiasco.

Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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