From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: ACPI generic hotkey working on SONY (was: sony vaio pcg-k45 hell) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 20:43:49 +0000 Message-ID: <20051129204349.GA18378@srcf.ucam.org> References: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F84041AC212@pdsmsx403> <20051024102231.GA32705@message-id.gmane0305.slipkontur.de> <200510261029.01166.luming.yu@intel.com> <200511251602.02494.luming.yu@intel.com> <20051125120522.GA26643@message-id.s3e.de> <20051129153501.GB11822@message-id.s3e.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051129153501.GB11822-l0tNAEGuAhiXoBlonBaIS7NAH6kLmebB@public.gmane.org> Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Stefan Seyfried Cc: "Yu, Luming" , acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 04:35:01PM +0100, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > I have of course some other questions: > - what will happen on other machines if i load the hotkey module and issue > echo "10001:1:1:0" >/proc/acpi/hotkey/action To be honest, the generic hotkey driver seems to be something of a nasty hack. It effectively exposes large parts of ACPI to userspace, but with a very limited API and various artificial limitations. Is there any reason why we don't shift to dev_acpi (http://free.linux.hp.com/~awilliam/acpi/dev_acpi/) and have a userspace application dealing with hotkey events? It would seem to be much more flexible. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click