Re: 2.6.25-rc2 Regression Thinkpad acpi

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:35:29AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > You shouldn't need to do anything other than teach userspace to respond to
> > them, as they generate the proper KEY_* events.  If you are giving the AML
> > _OSI(Linux), at least...
> > 
> > But maybe looking at the keyboard output in console mode, to make triple
> > sure the events ARE being sent over the KDC as they should, would be in
> > order?
> 
> so, do I understand correctly that volume keys have been controlled by ACPI
> and seemed to work independently on SW and now (exactly since when?) are
> passed complety to the user space as key codes?

Yes, since the first *61 model.  And field-upgradeable firmware revisons
have a say on how this thing works, since the entire KDC is software in a
Lenovo ThinkPad (it is just a small part of the EC firmware, that comes with
the BIOS upgrades).

I have some long email sitting on my draft folders about how to restore full
sanity to thinkpad mixer behaviour on Linux, but I have to cool down for a
few days before I revise it and send it.

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  Henrique Holschuh