From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set osi=Linux for the ThinkPad X200s Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:54:20 +0000 Message-ID: <20091109165420.GA28672@srcf.ucam.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:54786 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750903AbZKIQy0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:54:26 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Lutomirski Cc: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org, ACPI Devel Maling List 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