From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mattia Dongili Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/25] sony-laptop: input core improvements improvements Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 01:24:14 +0900 Message-ID: <20110607162413.GC4087@kamineko.org> References: <4DE8FC4A.9010401@absence.it> <4DE9012E.5040207@absence.it> <20110604080717.GC7194@kamineko.org> <4DEA4D67.8000009@absence.it> <20110604164021.GA12552@kamineko.org> <4DEA644D.3030109@absence.it> <20110605222401.GA26835@kamineko.org> <4DECD592.6000707@absence.it> <20110607142332.GA4087@kamineko.org> <4DEE4094.8040300@absence.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-ey0-f174.google.com ([209.85.215.174]:43762 "EHLO mail-ey0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754481Ab1FGQYY (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 12:24:24 -0400 Received: by eyx24 with SMTP id 24so1790681eyx.19 for ; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:24:23 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DEE4094.8040300@absence.it> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Marco Chiappero Cc: Matthew Garrett , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 05:15:32PM +0200, Marco Chiappero wrote: > Il 07/06/2011 16:23, Mattia Dongili ha scritto: ... > >lovely, does it make any difference if udev maps those keys and the > >driver instead just sends FN_F* making old and new models send the same > >keycodes and scancodes? > > Models equipped with the SNC device are already using the same > scancodes, there is no need to translate them twice. having the translation layer makes them consistent with all the other hotkeys on all vaios. > > you're a bit too optimistic here but well... > > Maybe, but I don't think that Sony wants to deal with model specific > layouts under Windows as well (in fact it seems to me that is > shipping the same base software on every model). one would hope so. -- mattia :wq!