Re: what about the sony_acpi driver?

["Yu, Luming" <luming.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On 2005.06.07 00:27:07 +0800, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> 
>    On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 11:28:29PM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote:
>    > I admit the so-called generic-acpi-hotkey-driver is hard to use. :-(
>    > And I'm trying to make it easy to use.
>    Ok, i will try it out on a hotkey-enabled machine (asus)
>    > Please try tool: acpidm. And send it to me unless you got zero.
>    attached
>    > > yes, but those specific drivers work. Today. And they do even more
>    than
>    > > hotkeys (which are non-existent on this machine), e.g. adjusting
>    LCD backlight
>    > > or switching the ASUS custom LEDs.
>    > Believe me, generic-hotkey-driver and acpi-video-driver can handle
>    these, if this is a acpi system.
>    Ok. I tried the video driver and got lots of (mostly irritating)
>    information,
>    could not do anything with it. After compiling and insmod'ing
>    sony_acpi, i
>    could immediately adjust my brightness ;-)

I went through the DSDT and SSDTs, found that there is a specific ACPI device
: SNC whose _HID is SNY5001. In the scope of this device, there are several
Methods defined but no callers. So, I think sony_acpi.c won't give your ability to control things through real hot-keys. right? If you need to use hotkey on
keyboard to control, you have to try sonypi driver. Because I didn't find any
GPEs related to hot-key methods, which are must-have for acpi-generic-hotkey-driver. I prefer integrate the quirks of sony_acpi.c into generic hotkey driver.


>    I am willing to try out all kinds of stuff.
>    --
>    Stefan Seyfried




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