From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org,
ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set osi=Linux for the ThinkPad X200s
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:54:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091109165420.GA28672@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cb0375e10911090847n4880f048ga0ef68bf41f968c9@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 11:47:30AM -0500, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> The ThinkPad X200s, like the X61, requires OSI=Linux for the mute
> button to work. Without this patch (or the equivalent command-line
> parameter), the mute button does not generate a keystroke and,
> instead, messes up the sound hardware.
No. How does this work on Windows? Note that we *have* a special driver
for Thinkpads, and it's entirely acceptable to require it in order to
have sensible behaviour. We do not want to encourage vendors to
special-case Linux.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-09 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-09 16:47 [PATCH] Set osi=Linux for the ThinkPad X200s Andrew Lutomirski
2009-11-09 16:54 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-11-09 17:49 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2009-11-09 17:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-10 9:24 ` [ltp] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-11-10 12:42 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-10 13:32 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2009-11-10 14:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-10 17:49 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-11-10 9:19 ` [ltp] " Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-11-25 4:50 ` Len Brown
2009-11-25 17:30 ` Jerone Young
2009-11-25 18:24 ` Len Brown
2009-11-25 19:56 ` Jerone Young
2009-11-26 5:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-11-26 6:00 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2009-11-26 17:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-26 13:43 ` Jerone Young
2009-11-25 19:01 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2009-11-30 5:47 ` Jerone Young
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