From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] toshiba_acpi: Add blacklist for models with hotkey problems Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:09:26 +0000 Message-ID: <20120105200925.GA26877@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1325617358-8286-1-git-send-email-seth.forshee@canonical.com> <1325617358-8286-5-git-send-email-seth.forshee@canonical.com> <20120105182627.GE24242@srcf.ucam.org> <20120105193228.GB25386@ubuntu-macmini> <20120105193431.GA26097@srcf.ucam.org> <20120105200432.GE25386@ubuntu-macmini> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:56912 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755978Ab2AEUJa (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:09:30 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120105200432.GE25386@ubuntu-macmini> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Len Brown , Azael Avalos , Thomas Renninger , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 02:04:32PM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 07:34:31PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > In that case, can you check for the presence of the WMI interface and > > then refuse to bind? That's seem far simpler than adding an unknown > > number of systems to the blacklist. > > Hmm, I suppose I could look for the specific WMI event guid, although > the relationship between the two seems tenuous at best. It would make > sense to me if we were refusing to bind because there was a better > interface available, but Toshiba is obviously treating hotkeys on the > WMI interface as legacy since it's disabled in the BIOS for Vista or > later. INFO seems to be the preferred interface. ...but doesn't work? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org