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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lenb@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, resend] misc: Add dell-wmi driver for hotkey control
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:14:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081231001445.GA23563@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081230155035.8224ca86.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 03:50:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> One wonders whether this driver should really live in drivers/input/?

Mm. There's certainly an argument for that given its current 
functionality, but the Dell WMI interface also exposes a bunch of other 
functionality - we just don't know how to use any of it right now. 
Moving it later might be more confusing.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-31  0:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-28 15:31 [PATCH, resend] misc: Add dell-wmi driver for hotkey control Matthew Garrett
2008-12-30 23:50 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-31  0:14   ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-01-01  0:14     ` Len Brown

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