From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Side effect of pressing special keys
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 13:40:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141203124042.GA504@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201411231441.17592@pali>
On Sun 2014-11-23 14:41:17, Pali Rohár wrote:
> Hello,
>
> pressing some keys on laptops could cause some side effects.
>
> Example scenario 1:
>
> Laptop has Fn key for enabling/disabling WIFI and when that key
> is pressed BIOS is doing two things:
>
> 1) Switch hard rfkill state of WIFI
> 2) Report that Fn key was pressed to kernel
> (either via i8042 bus or via ACPI/WMI)
We should not really report that as a "key" to userspace. We might
want to report that rfkill state changed....
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-03 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-23 13:41 Side effect of pressing special keys Pali Rohár
2014-12-03 12:40 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2014-12-03 12:46 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-03 13:12 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2014-12-03 13:24 ` Pali Rohár
2014-12-03 13:38 ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2014-12-03 13:40 ` Pali Rohár
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