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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Florian Echtler <floe@butterbrot.org>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Looking for some pointers on WMI/EC access
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:53:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100422135336.GA31984@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271944219.29664.42.camel@pancake.fritz.box>

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 03:50:19PM +0200, Florian Echtler wrote:

> There's 4 dedicated hotkeys. Of these, one generates KEY_F8 for no
> particular reason, one (correctly!) generates KEY_MUTE, one just
> generates an 0x95 event that dies as described before and the fourth one
> (which _does_ work in Splashtop!) does nothing at all.

So two come through the keyboard controller, one generates an EC event 
and one does nothing? I do wonder about firmware engineers sometimes.

> I also think so in general, but in this case, the entire notification
> setup looks like an incredible mess to me. In any other case, I wouldn't
> really bother with the hotkeys, but as this is a tablet PC, the hotkeys
> on the screen side become really important all of a sudden...

Yeah. I'll take a look and see if there's anything obvious.

Thanks,
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-22 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-17 15:37 Looking for some pointers on WMI/EC access Florian Echtler
2010-04-18 19:21 ` Corentin Chary
2010-04-19 14:25   ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-19 15:46     ` Corentin Chary
     [not found]       ` <1271746353.16585.9.camel@flunder>
2010-04-20  7:21         ` Corentin Chary
2010-04-20  7:30           ` Corentin Chary
2010-04-20 11:21             ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-20 12:09               ` Corentin Chary
2010-04-21 12:46                 ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-21 13:33                   ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-21 14:30                     ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-21 14:32                       ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-22  8:21                         ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-22 13:36                           ` Matthew Garrett
     [not found]                             ` <1271944219.29664.42.camel@pancake.fritz.box>
2010-04-22 13:53                               ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-04-22 14:05                                 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-23 11:24                                   ` Florian Echtler
2010-04-23 17:47                                     ` Matthew Garrett
2010-04-22 14:33                                 ` Corentin Chary

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