From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marco Chiappero Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/25] sony-laptop: input core improvements improvements Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:59:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4DEE66F5.1020406@absence.it> 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> <20110607162413.GC4087@kamineko.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from aa011-1msr.fastwebnet.it ([62.101.93.131]:54539 "EHLO aa011-1msr.fastwebnet.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754070Ab1FGR7Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Jun 2011 13:59:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110607162413.GC4087@kamineko.org> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Mattia Dongili Cc: Matthew Garrett , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov Il 07/06/2011 18:24, Mattia Dongili ha scritto: > 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. In this case I can't see how consistency is relevant (especially if we think that it's a nonexistent layout!). Moreover every SNC equipped notebooks use the same map while SPIC related code is going to be deprecated.