From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/input/misc: Added Acer TravelMate 240 support to the wistron button interface Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:28:33 -0500 Message-ID: <200512111328.35858.dtor_core@ameritech.net> References: <81083a450512102116o50d71fa0gbb53557f0e3d8748@mail.gmail.com> <439BB8CC.4000301@volny.cz> <81083a450512102148u2db386aat7ad51056bcc02f82@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <81083a450512102148u2db386aat7ad51056bcc02f82@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ashutosh Naik Cc: Miloslav Trmac , bero@arklinux.org, dtor@mail.ru, akpm@osdl.org, vojtech@suse.cz, linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 11 December 2005 00:48, Ashutosh Naik wrote: > On 12/11/05, Miloslav Trmac wrote: > > > > This patch adds Acer TravelMate 240 support to the wistron button > > > interface. This means that the buttons on top of the > > > keyboard(including ones for Wifi and Bluetooth), which hitherto did > > > not work, work now. I have tested it on my laptop and it seems to work > > > great. > > Please check that the ACPI "button.ko" driver can't provide the > > functionality; newer laptops apparently work better with that driver > > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/2/61). > > The Acer TravelMate 240 laptop supports ACPI, but the ACPI does not > support hotkeys. Hence hotkeys just would not work without this > module. > I added this to my input tree. -- Dmitry