From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix mute key on older Thinkpads by OSI blacklisting them Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:01:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20100424160114.GA13867@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1272062884.1594.73.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:42483 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751344Ab0DXQBR (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Apr 2010 12:01:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1272062884.1594.73.camel@laptop> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Jerone Young Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 05:48:04PM -0500, Jerone Young wrote: > This patch fixes that mute keys for X & R & W series Thinkpads. For > these Thinkpads in the BIOS if OS exposes itself as "Linux" it will > switch the functionality of the mute key to send a mute key press to the > OS. These machines will not be getting any bios updates in the future. The correct way to handle this, as noted before, is to figure out what Windows does and implement that. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org