From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corentin Chary Subject: Re: [PATCH 32/33] input: add KEY_WIRELESS_CYCLE Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:21:12 +0100 Message-ID: <71cd59b00912060021w6b9c46fem5a4da45f29d370a@mail.gmail.com> References: <1259826317-18809-27-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-29-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-30-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-31-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-32-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1259826317-18809-33-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <20091203075404.GK9121@core.coreip.homeip.net> <71cd59b00912030012r2f45f474u37c494ad281230cb@mail.gmail.com> <20091206065829.GI5340@wrars-comp.wrarsdomain> <20091206071751.GD14651@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from mail-vw0-f197.google.com ([209.85.212.197]:44032 "EHLO mail-vw0-f197.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751962AbZLFIVG (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Dec 2009 03:21:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20091206071751.GD14651@core.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Andrey Rahmatullin , Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:58:29AM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:12:52AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote: >> > >> This keycode could be used in a lot of platform specific drivers. >> > >> For example, on Asus laptops, Fn+F2 allow to cycle trought wireless >> > >> drivers (bt/wl: off/off, on/off, off/on, on/on). >> > >> >> > >> Currently, these key are mapped to KEY_WLAN, and KEY_BLUETOOTH/KEY_WIMAX >> > >> are rarely used. >> > > Is there any application support for such cycling? IOW does anyone cares >> > > to do such cycling? >> > On Asus laptops (both asus and eeepc) the Fn+F2 key cycle >> > (bluetooth/wlan: on/on, on/off, off/on, off/off) on windows. >> > On Linux, it only produces a KEY_WLAN keycode. >> Default eee901's Xandros cycles and even shows an OSD with BT and WLAN >> state images. >> > > You are describing the visible result. Whether it is done as a custom > policy to KEY_WLAN presses or utilizes a separate key definition - is > not known. Old xandros builds use the acpi event. New builds have switched to eeepc-laptop (based on my 2.6.30 backport), so they may use an input event (KEY_WLAN). > Anyway, we got the response form wireless developers and infrastructure > people and thyy do not care about having a new defintion so I guess that > settles it. Yep -- Corentin Chary http://xf.iksaif.net