Re: Enabling "extra" scancodes on some Acer laptops

["Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

Hi Carlos,

On 10/14/07, Carlos Corbacho <cathectic@slackadelic.com> wrote:
>
> After calling set_keyboard_quirk(), the extra keys start generating proper
> scancodes, and can be mapped as normal via setkeycodes.
>
> At the moment, I've added this quirk to acer_acpi (it's currently only applied
> on the few systems we know that need it via DMI matching), but I'm not really
> sure if this is the right place for it as:
>
> 1) acer_acpi is still out of tree
>
> 2) Does this really belong in acer_acpi (I'm not really sure if it falls under
> what I'm doing - this seems to border a bit too much on the input tree side),
> or somewhere further up the input tree (wistron-btns isn't much use here, as
> the quirk would then be limited to 32 bit only, whereas some of the machines
> that need this quirk can run a 64 bit kernel)?
>

I think it could be added to i8042 driver to enable it. How messy is detection?

I am also going to apply the patch that exports i8042_command() so it
can be used by other modules (Clevo LED driver needs it).

-- 
Dmitry