From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: Looking for some pointers on WMI/EC access Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:53:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20100422135336.GA31984@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1271762498.1537.215.camel@pancake> <1271853961.1537.1781.camel@pancake> <20100421133305.GA28710@srcf.ucam.org> <1271860206.1537.1914.camel@pancake> <20100421143239.GA484@srcf.ucam.org> <1271924488.3790.25.camel@flunder> <20100422133605.GA31680@srcf.ucam.org> <1271944219.29664.42.camel@pancake.fritz.box> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:57650 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754382Ab0DVNxl (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:53:41 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1271944219.29664.42.camel@pancake.fritz.box> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Florian Echtler Cc: Corentin Chary , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org 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