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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	corentincj@iksaif.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] eeepc-laptop: Use standard interfaces
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:28:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080820012846.GA7467@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080820011828.GD29336@khazad-dum.debian.net>

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:18:29PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> 1. If the event has no bearing on compulsory hardware state changes (i.e.
> the hardware won't change state by itself when the event happens, it is
> really just reporting a simple key press that will do nothing by itself),
> you just report the key as an event.

Yes. That's all I do.

> 2. If the hardware/firmware *ALSO* compulsory changes the rfkill state (i.e.
> the event also means the real rfkill controller state probably changed), you
> take the opportunity to do a forced immediate state poll and
> rfkill_force_state() the new state.

The firmware does not perform any compulsory change.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-20  1:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-04 17:08 [PATCH 1/2] eeepc-laptop: Fix user after free Matthew Garrett
2008-08-04 17:15 ` [PATCH 2/2] eeepc-laptop: Use standard interfaces Matthew Garrett
2008-08-04 17:53   ` Ivo van Doorn
2008-08-04 17:36     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-04 21:21       ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-04 21:29   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-06  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] eeepc-laptop: Fix user after free Matthew Garrett
2008-08-06  9:25   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] eeepc-laptop: Use standard interfaces Matthew Garrett
2008-08-19  9:58     ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-19 11:13       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-19 23:09         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-19 23:24           ` Matthew Garrett
2008-08-20  1:18             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-20  1:28               ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-08-20  1:32                 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-08-20  1:42                   ` Awkward rfkill corner cases Matthew Garrett
2008-08-20  2:30                     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-10-08 20:50         ` [PATCH v2 2/2] eeepc-laptop: Use standard interfaces Len Brown

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