Re: [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Add full hotkey support

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@simtec.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 10:09 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > > How will it interact with software stacks like HAL when the lock button
> > > > is pressed?
> > > I don't really understand the question?
> > It was more: will events come out of both the notify method *and*
> > the /proc/acpi/toshiba/keys stuff, or will they only come out of the
> > notify method if it can be enabled? (I'm just trying to establish that
> > things polling /proc/acpi/toshiba/keys won't end up causing duplicated
> > events).
> Either the kernel or userspace will get the event, but not both. There's 
> an argument for disabling the input code if /proc/acpi/toshiba/keys is 
> open in order to avoid breaking anything that expects to get the code 
> itself.

I see. One other thing occurred to me. Is there any way for Hal to know
that the notify stuff is in place and thus doesn't need to
poll /proc/acpi/toshiba/keys? Otherwise it's going to poll it anyway
which fails to remove the periodic wakeups.

D.

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