From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:51:03 +0100 Message-ID: <20070716155103.GB19199@srcf.ucam.org> References: <11844223334107-git-send-email-hmh@hmh.eng.br> <20070714223144.GA25782@srcf.ucam.org> <20070715181233.GG14134@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070715184519.GD3235@srcf.ucam.org> <20070715200338.GB19066@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070715201201.GA5518@srcf.ucam.org> <20070715205934.GF19066@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20070715210405.GA6216@srcf.ucam.org> <20070715215453.GJ19066@khazad-dum.debian.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:39795 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1763619AbXGPPvP (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:51:15 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Richard Hughes , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:46:26AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > How do you know that this is a "passive keypress"? Can you put another > (better) soundcard in a docking station? Woudl the firmware still > control that card (doubtful)? Do we want the same keys to control that > card's volume? This is absolutely possible. In that case I'd expect the hotkeys to start controlling the card mixer's volume, but that's a policy decision that would have to be taken in userspace by an application aware of everything that's happened. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org