From: Garry Williams <gtwilliams@gmail.com>
To: marmon@montana.com
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: function keys
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 20:04:52 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1142557492.3455.74.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603152256.43735.marmon@montana.com>
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 22:56 -0700, Franklin Marmon wrote:
> I am currently using an acpi driver for sony laptops (sony_acpi.c) which
> provides an interface for reading that last pressed function key by means of
> a /proc interface file. When read this file will show either 0 or the last
> function key combination that was typed. It provides this value by using the
> acpi_evaluate_object() function to obtain the value of "GHKE". A user space
> program is currently used to read this value every N seconds and check for
> events.
>
> Is there an interrupt generated when one of these function keys is pressed and
> is this interrupt currently handled by the acpi subsystem? If so, is there a
> way to add this acpi device driver into a wait queue for this type of event
> so that a proper char device may be created and polled, rather than reading
> the /proc file system every N seconds?
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/fsfn/
--
Garry Williams -- +1 (678) 656-4579
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-17 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-16 5:56 function keys Franklin Marmon
2006-03-17 1:04 ` Garry Williams [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1142557492.3455.74.camel@localhost \
--to=gtwilliams@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=marmon@montana.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.