Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: make the input event mode the default

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2007-07-15T20:09:52Z

On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 03:05:29PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > Again, we have keycodes for most of these and we have the ability to
> > > make the driver choose the correct one by default. Why make things more
> > > difficult?
> >
> > Because I only map keys that are marked (silk-screened) on the keys on at
> > least 90% of the current models.
>
> But we're able to differentiate between the models.

Yes. And I was told to not do it in the kernel when possible, so I will map
by default only what is marked and working on a vast majority. Otherwise,
I'd need a big quirk db, based on what is silk-screened on the keyboards.

HAL is welcome to remap the keys to whatever it wants, based on
model-specific fdi files.

> > And I could not find the proper keycode for "switch output video port", yet.
>
> Yes, that's a good point. Dmitry? As vendors move towards adopting the
> ACPI video extension and getting the OS to look after this, we could
> really do with a standardised code.

Well, that one I will add as soon as I get it :-) All thinkpads I know the
keyboard layout have FN+F7 mapped to "switch output video port". But I have
seen a lot of non-thinkpad notebooks with "set output port to LCD" and "set
output port to vga out" keys as well.

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Henrique Holschuh