From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Yu Luming Subject: Re: [Desktop_portables] Re: [gpm] Untangling the sleep hotkey mess Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:47:42 +0800 Message-ID: <200601091547.43439.luming.yu@intel.com> References: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F840AA37137@pdsmsx403> <200601091155.24380.luming.yu@intel.com> <20060109071439.GA31974@hell.org.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060109071439.GA31974-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-acpi-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Karol Kozimor Cc: Matthew Garrett , linux-acpi-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, desktop_portables-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org, Richard Hughes , gnome-power-manager-list-rDKQcyrBJuzYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Monday 09 January 2006 15:14, Karol Kozimor wrote: > Thus wrote Yu Luming: > > >From practical point of view,=A0 the acpi hotkey won't change for= a quite > > > > long period. For example, I cannot find too much changes on acpi h= otkey > > from Thinkpad T21 and Thinkpad T42.=A0 And, I don't see any reason= for ODM > > to change their well-know ACPI device PNP ID and well-know AML met= hods > > names for acpi hotkey on new platfrom, because they can just imple= ment > > any platform changes in AML code. > > Tell me more... I just want to say the hot-keys on keyboard for brightness, sound volume, display output switching won't change too much,=20 because user needs these buttons. And almost all laptops implement them= =2E =46or each ODM, if they implement hot-keys with dedicated ACPI devices = and dedicated AML methods. It doesn't make any sense to change the name on new platforms for supporting same hot-keys. > > There's already 3 or 4 major variations of method layout for ASUS la= ptops > hotkey device, subtle differences like method name changes > notwithstanding. One of the reasons the driver's development lags so = much > is that the support code has become such a mess. I really wish their = BIOS > teams would settle on one scheme, and there was a point when I though= t > they'd done just that, but in the end it just didn't happen. > We need a hotkey spec for those well-know hot-keys now, Then, we can look forward to a clean hotkey driver in the future. Thanks, Luming --=20 Thanks, Luming - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html