From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add support for Eject hotkey in dell-wmi
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:48:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090420184807.GA3490@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49ECC279.2080607@dell.com>
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:44:09PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> I've checked with the BIOS teams further, and they indicated at the time
> that this is enabled on those consumer systems, the hotkey should be
> switched over to a mechanical key rather than a software key, so the
> keyboard interface would not see this key. The support in the BIOS to
> turn on and off WMI would actually enable SMI hot key events instead
> (which could then be serviced by dell-laptop).
Ah, ok, that's fine. As long as the event will only be delivered either
via WMI or the keyboard controller then we should be good.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-20 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-20 18:11 Add support for Eject hotkey in dell-wmi Mario Limonciello
2009-04-20 18:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-20 18:25 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-20 18:28 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-20 18:45 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-20 18:45 ` Mario Limonciello
[not found] ` <49ECC279.2080607@dell.com>
2009-04-20 18:48 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-04-20 18:50 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-21 18:00 ` [PATCH 1/3] Add support for more dell-wmi hotkeys Mario Limonciello
2009-04-21 18:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-21 19:06 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-21 19:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-21 19:16 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-21 19:18 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-21 19:22 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-29 16:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-29 18:16 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-29 18:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-29 19:23 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-29 20:30 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-29 21:24 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-29 21:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-29 22:31 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-29 17:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-04-29 18:20 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-29 18:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-05-04 16:38 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-05-10 2:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-05-13 17:50 ` Mario Limonciello
2009-04-21 18:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] Don't load Dell-WMI on non WMI systems Mario Limonciello
2009-04-21 18:03 ` [PATCH 3/3] Mark OSD type scancodes Mario Limonciello
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