From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>,
Joey Lee <jlee@novell.com>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@novell.com>,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@novell.com>,
carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk, jbenc@suse.cz,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add acer wmi hotkey events support
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:48:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010181648.30715.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101018092346.GA19058@srcf.ucam.org>
On Monday, October 18, 2010 02:23:46 am Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 10:19:37AM +0200, Corentin Chary wrote:
> > But if we do, we could add KEY_TOUCHPADTOGGLE 0x1b8
> > Then bind it to XF86XK_TouchpadToggle (what's the right way to do that
> > ? keymaps ?)
>
> Yeah, we can add it to the X evdev map. That's not a problem. The only
> problem I see is that we don't have a good semantic definition - some
> machines send a toggle keycode, whereas others send on/off. That
> wouldn't in itself be a problem, but sometimes that's accompanied by the
> touchpad being disabled by the BIOS. In the latter case we probably
> don't want to map it, since the BIOS can do it anyway, but there's an
> argument that we need some way to expose that to userspace.
Well, unsurprisingly, this mirrors the case with RF switches and hotkeys.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-18 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-18 4:53 [PATCH 1/3] Add acer wmi hotkey events support Joey Lee
2010-10-18 8:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-18 8:19 ` Corentin Chary
2010-10-18 8:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-18 8:47 ` Corentin Chary
2010-10-18 9:26 ` Takashi Iwai
2010-10-18 9:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2010-10-18 23:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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2010-10-19 9:43 Joey Lee
2010-10-19 15:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-10-19 9:35 Joey Lee
2010-10-19 9:31 Joey Lee
2010-10-13 3:47 Lee, Chun-Yi
2010-10-13 18:24 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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