Re: [RFC] Reporting "orientation changed" event

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(Sorry for taking so long to respond)

On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 06:18:00PM +0200, Anisse Astier wrote:

> Pegatron Lucid tablet sends an ACPI hotkey event(0xEA) when the
> accelerometer detects coarse orientation change. My initial thought was
> to just translate this event into KEY_DIRECTION, which seems to be the
> norm from what we can see in hp-wmi driver. (See patch below for an
> implementation.)
> 
> But this isn't just a key per se like on the HP touchsmart tablet, this
> is an event that is triggered when the device is rotated.
> 
> This could be defined as a new Misc (EV_MSC) event:
> MSC_ORIENTATION_CHANGED ?

I'd say that it ought to be hooked into the accelerometer driver and 
that should indicate that the orientation has changed.

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