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From: Marco Chiappero <marco@absence.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/25] sony-laptop: input core improvements improvements
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:20:06 +0200
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Il 01/07/2011 16:09, Matthew Garrett ha scritto:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 04:03:26PM +0200, Marco Chiappero wrote:
>> Il 01/07/2011 14:50, Matthew Garrett ha scritto:
>>> We've standardised on doing this via the input layer.
>>
>> Are you referring to
>> KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE/KEY_TOUCHPAD_ON/KEY_TOUCHPAD_OFF? If so, we end
>> up having two different unrelated controls.
>
> That's what I'm referring to, yes. I don't understand what you mean by
> unrelated controls.

The hardware stored setting touchpad on/off. The KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE 
input key can be used by userspace but how can userspace act on the 
hardware setting? And if the touchpad is disabled via hardware, pressing 
the combo will have no effect.