From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Darren Hart Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant Launch hotkey processing Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:55:42 -0800 Message-ID: <20151130205542.GD30553@malice.jf.intel.com> References: <1f6ac54784b39ebb6ce02a9fb9e944c840fddb7b.1448547341.git.kernel@kempniu.pl> <20151126144130.GI14190@pali> <20151126145556.GA9371@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl> <201511292050.18883@pali> <20151130141400.GA5398@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl> <20151130143756.GC29576@pali> <20151130145458.GA5524@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20151130145458.GA5524@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: =?utf-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBLxJlwaWXFhA==?= Cc: Pali =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roh=E1r?= , Matthew Garrett , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: platform-driver-x86.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:54:58PM +0100, Micha=C5=82 K=C4=99pie=C5=84 = wrote: > > The best would be if embedded controller could be configured to sen= d > > events via i8042 bus... >=20 > Yes, but if I correctly understand Mario's message back from July [1]= , > V131's EC simply does not support generating scancodes at all. >=20 > > I'm starting to thing that blacklist or whitelist of machines is ne= eded > > to collect. And via it decide if WMI event will be accepted or drop= ped. >=20 > If you believe this is the way to go, I'm perfectly fine with that. This is a common approach among platform drivers since we try to suppor= t multiple products with a single driver. Ideally, we could detect if this was necessary by the response of some = ACPI call or another, but failing that, DMI matching is our fallback. --=20 Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center