From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Add support for Eject hotkey in dell-wmi Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:48:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20090420184807.GA3490@srcf.ucam.org> References: <49ECBAE2.2080308@dell.com> <20090420182312.GA2910@srcf.ucam.org> <49ECBE35.9040003@dell.com> <20090420182848.GA3105@srcf.ucam.org> <49ECC279.2080607@dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:46660 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753485AbZDTSsN (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:48:13 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49ECC279.2080607@dell.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Mario Limonciello Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:44:09PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote: > I've checked with the BIOS teams further, and they indicated at the time > that this is enabled on those consumer systems, the hotkey should be > switched over to a mechanical key rather than a software key, so the > keyboard interface would not see this key. The support in the BIOS to > turn on and off WMI would actually enable SMI hot key events instead > (which could then be serviced by dell-laptop). Ah, ok, that's fine. As long as the event will only be delivered either via WMI or the keyboard controller then we should be good. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org