Re: [PATCH 32/33] input: add KEY_WIRELESS_CYCLE

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:51:59AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
> <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:12:52AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
> >> <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:45:16AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote:
> >> >> This keycode could be used in a lot of platform specific drivers.
> >> >> For example, on Asus laptops, Fn+F2 allow to cycle trought wireless
> >> >> drivers (bt/wl: off/off, on/off, off/on, on/on).
> >> >>
> >> >> Currently, these key are mapped to KEY_WLAN, and KEY_BLUETOOTH/KEY_WIMAX
> >> >> are rarely used.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> > Is there any application support for such cycling? IOW does anyone cares
> >> > to do such cycling?
> >>
> >> On Asus laptops (both asus and eeepc) the Fn+F2 key cycle
> >> (bluetooth/wlan: on/on, on/off, off/on, off/off) on windows.
> >> On Linux, it only produces a KEY_WLAN keycode.
> >>
> >
> > I understand this. I guess the question is whether people working on
> > system infrastructure (dbus, Networkmanager, etc) care about having such
> > functionality on Linux? The reason I am asking is that we added all
> > KEY_WIMAX and so on defines but I am not usre if anyone wants them.
> 
> KEY_WIMAX may not be used a lot because there is not a lot of device
> with such a key,
> I think this is not the case for KEY_WIRELESS_CYCLE.
> 
> The bad thing is that we will need to patch X11 (and Qt, for
> kde/solid) to make it works.
> 
> Maybe we should Cc dbus/network manager/solid/linux-wireless ?
> 

That would be a good idea.

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Dmitry