From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Angelo Arrifano <miknix@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Quickstart Button ACPI driver to serve PNP0C32 ACPI devices
Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 22:11:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100528211156.GA3883@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201005281940.09925.trenn@suse.de>
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 07:40:09PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> The idea of these buttons is that they are undefined from BIOS/kernel
> point of view. Userspace has to map a functionality to them.
> Therefore the idea to modify the input event keycode via sysfs file.
> There should be 2 situations that perfectly are triggered via userspace:
They're logically buttons, so the right mechanism is for them to be
configured via the standard keymap ioctls. There's already
infrastructure for setting this via udev - see /lib/udev/keymaps on
recent systems. That should let you avoid the need to
unregister/reregister.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-28 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-28 17:40 [RFC PATCH] Quickstart Button ACPI driver to serve PNP0C32 ACPI devices Thomas Renninger
2010-05-28 18:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-05-28 21:11 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
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