From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Hiroshi Miura <miura@da-cha.org>,
hadi@cyberus.ca
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Panasonic Let's Note laptop extras driver
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:17:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080702131759.GA5419@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080702130315.GA4064@prithivi.gnumonks.org>
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:03:15PM +0800, Harald Welte wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
> >
> > Hm. Does this mean that the keymap isn't changable at runtime?
>
> i wasn't aware that those kind of keymaps could be changeable at
> runtime. Will read up on my homework ;)
Especially when you have a case where there's a scancode that isn't
mapped to anything by default, it's helpful to let it be changed at
runtime. I usually just copy the code from wistron_btns whenever I'm
implementing this.
> > And shouldn't be adding any new files to /proc. Anything that can't be
> > expressed via the existing generic sysfs classes should be an attribute
> > on a sysfs platform device.
>
> that's what I generally know from other drivers (and how I do it in
> other kernel code). But I wasn't sure what the policy with regard to
> this was for ACPI.
The long-term goal is to kill off /proc/acpi entirely, so adding new
things is kind of frowned upon :)
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-02 13:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-02 9:00 [PATCH] Panasonic Let's Note laptop extras driver Harald Welte
2008-07-02 10:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-02 13:03 ` Harald Welte
2008-07-02 13:17 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-07-03 16:52 ` Harald Welte
2008-07-03 17:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-04 3:14 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-04 4:43 ` Harald Welte
2008-07-04 11:55 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-03 17:35 ` [PATCH] Panasonic Let's Note laptop extras driver v0.93 Harald Welte
2008-07-03 19:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-04 1:31 ` Harald Welte
2008-07-04 3:44 ` [PATCH] Panasonic Let's Note laptop extras driver v0.94 Harald Welte
2008-07-04 9:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-04 12:07 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-04 12:11 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-04 12:22 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-04 12:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-04 20:18 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-07-12 10:36 ` Harald Welte
2008-07-12 10:56 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-09-22 22:38 ` Len Brown
2008-09-23 15:46 ` Harald Welte
2008-09-24 8:09 ` Len Brown
2008-09-25 4:45 ` SPS 三浦 広志(ＩＴ人材戦略)
2008-09-25 16:44 ` Len Brown
2008-09-26 2:17 ` Hiroshi Miura
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