From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Hughes Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] Make the driver use MSC_SCAN and a setkeycode and getkeycode key table. Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:37:33 +0100 Message-ID: <1184668653.2443.2.camel@work> References: <1184520879452-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <1184520879991-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <11845208793336-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <11845208793678-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <11845208794064-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <11845208791511-git-send-email-malattia@linux.it> <20070715211128.GA6291@srcf.ucam.org> <1184605565.2228.57.camel@work> <20070716180928.GA21211@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:52149 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753106AbXGQKl1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 06:41:27 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so126731ugf for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2007 03:41:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20070716180928.GA21211@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: Mattia Dongili , Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Stelian Pop , Richard Hughes , Dmitry Torokhov On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 19:09 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > That's fine, we have information that lets us distinguish between > models. Yes, but the consensus I seemed to get from previous mails was that the matching quirks should be done in userspace where possible. The current FDI thing lets a user edit a simple text xml file and stuff just works. I'm not sure asking user to compile custom kernel modules to test out new keymaps is feasible, at least for the majority of linux users. Richard.