Re: [PATCH] thinkpad-acpi: setup hotkey polling after changing hotkey_driver_mask

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

On Sun, 07 Feb 2010, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> Brightness notification does not work until the user writes to
> hotkey_mask attribute. That's because the polling thread will only run

Hmm, maybe this has something to do with it...
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15118

> if hotkey_user_mask is set and someone is reading the input device or if
> hotkey_driver_mask is set. In this second case, this condition is not
> tested after the mask is changed, because the brightness and volume
> drivers are started after the hotkey drivers.
> 
> This fix test for the polling condition that ends up starting the
> polling thread after hotkey_driver_mask is set in brightness and volume
> init functions.

tpacpi_hotkey_driver_mask_set() has to do whatever is required to get the
events to work.

I am looking into this problem now.

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