From: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: vojtech@suse.cz, dtor_core@ameritech.net, luming.yu@intel.com,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
len.brown@intel.com, bero@arklinux.org
Subject: Re: [git pull 02/14] Add Wistron driver
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:22:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051212112205.GA23881@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051212013844.59a1f76e.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:38:44AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote:
> > No. The ACPI Mafia^H^H^Hintainers :-) no longer accept any hotkey drivers
> > and IIUC it will be reimplemented in a generic driver. This driver
> > then should pipe the hotkey events to the input subsystem.
>
> hm. It seems a fairly bad idea to remove functionality before that
> functionality has been implemented by the other means and has been rolled
> out by distros for some time.
pcc_acpi never was in the acpi tree or in mainline AFAIK.
But it is nevertheless an example that it is not too hard to route hotkey
events through the input subsystem :-)
--
Stefan Seyfried \ "I didn't want to write for pay. I
QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices \ wanted to be paid for what I write."
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg \ -- Leonard Cohen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-12 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-06 8:11 [git pull 02/14] Add Wistron driver Yu, Luming
2005-12-06 15:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-12-11 13:10 ` Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
2005-12-11 22:40 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-12-12 8:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-12 9:14 ` Stefan Seyfried
2005-12-12 9:38 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-12 11:22 ` Stefan Seyfried [this message]
2005-12-12 11:33 ` Andrew Morton
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2005-12-06 8:57 Yu, Luming
2005-12-07 14:43 ` Miloslav Trmac
2005-12-06 8:38 Yu, Luming
2005-12-06 7:35 Yu, Luming
2005-12-06 8:15 ` Miloslav Trmac
2005-12-06 8:30 ` Miloslav Trmac
2005-11-20 6:36 [git pull 00/14] Input updates for 2.6.15 Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-20 6:36 ` [git pull 02/14] Add Wistron driver Dmitry Torokhov
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