Re: ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: make the input event mode the default

Matthew Garrett
2007-07-15T21:19:53Z

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 06:14:21PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > We already have in-kernel drivers that do this properly, so I'd suspect
> > that whoever told you that was wrong.
>
> I got tired of being told one way or the other, already.
>
> My position is simple, for now: I am keeping model-specific knowledge on the
> driver to the bare minimum needed for correct driver operation. But I will
> add it anytime I fell it is needed to keep correct driver operation.

Right now, the hotkey functionality of the driver is not terribly useful
without (bleeding-edge) userspace. This is inconsistent with the
majority of input drivers which do something broadly sane in that
situation.

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