Re: ACPI generic hotkey working on SONY (was: sony vaio pcg-k45 hell)

[Stefan Seyfried <seife-T+3qhDtrTvDv8lqoKu5MV4HBZQ1bDw0s@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 08:43:49PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.

I won't argue against this. However, i stopped hoping to get all the drivers
i need included into the kernel, so i will concentrate on getting all 
machines working with the generic hotkey driver and include this support
in powersaved. Unfortunately, i am totally AML illiterate, so all i can
do is provide DSDTs and test any instructions given to me :-)

> 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.

This would be fine with me also, i do not really care what i have to do to
get this hotkey events, as long as i can get them :-)
-- 
Stefan Seyfried


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