From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>,
Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] Make the driver use MSC_SCAN and a setkeycode and getkeycode key table.
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:56:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070718165636.GA23578@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184777059.2496.10.camel@work>
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 05:44:19PM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 17:25 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > This isn't an either/or situation. If you have a hal keymap then the
> > system will still work. The question is what to do in the absence of
> > hal. The kernel can either provide sane defaults (that might be wrong
> > in a couple of cases) or it can provide keys that are pretty much
> > guaranteed to do nothing. I think doing our best to make things work
> > even if hal isn't there is sensible - if hal /is/ there, we've lost
> > nothing.
>
> The only reason we set the keys to KEY_UNKNOWN is so we still emit acpi
> events (and not change the interface) if we are using an old HAL to not
> break stuff like acpid and tpd.
I was thinking more of the ones that are just flagged as KEY_FN_F1 at
the moment.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-18 16:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-15 17:34 [PATCH 0/7] sony-laptop for 2.6.23 (updated) Mattia Dongili
2007-07-15 17:34 ` [PATCH 1/7] sony-laptop: add new SNC handlers Mattia Dongili
2007-07-15 17:34 ` [PATCH 2/7] sony-laptop: map wireless switch events to KEY_WLAN Mattia Dongili
2007-07-15 17:34 ` [PATCH 3/7] Add support for recent Vaios Fn keys (C series for now) Mattia Dongili
2007-07-15 17:34 ` [PATCH 4/7] Invoke _INI for SNC devices that provide it Mattia Dongili
2007-07-15 17:34 ` [PATCH 5/7] Make the driver use MSC_SCAN and a setkeycode and getkeycode key table Mattia Dongili
2007-07-15 17:34 ` [PATCH 6/7] Add Vaio FE to the special init sequence Mattia Dongili
2007-07-15 17:34 ` [PATCH 7/7] Fix event reading in sony-laptop Mattia Dongili
2007-07-15 21:11 ` [PATCH 5/7] Make the driver use MSC_SCAN and a setkeycode and getkeycode key table Matthew Garrett
2007-07-16 17:06 ` Richard Hughes
2007-07-16 18:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-07-17 10:37 ` Richard Hughes
2007-07-17 10:46 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-07-18 11:45 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-07-18 14:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-07-18 15:05 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-18 15:17 ` Richard Hughes
2007-07-18 16:02 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-18 16:20 ` Richard Hughes
2007-07-18 16:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-07-18 16:39 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-18 16:44 ` Richard Hughes
2007-07-18 16:56 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-07-19 15:51 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-07-16 13:22 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-18 11:33 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-07-19 17:01 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-07-22 4:36 ` Len Brown
2007-07-18 11:45 ` Mattia Dongili
2007-07-22 4:37 ` [PATCH 0/7] sony-laptop for 2.6.23 (updated) Len Brown
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