From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753178AbYLaAO7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:14:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751859AbYLaAOu (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:14:50 -0500 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:55262 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751816AbYLaAOt (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:14:49 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:14:45 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH, resend] misc: Add dell-wmi driver for hotkey control Message-ID: <20081231001445.GA23563@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20081228153128.GC13424@srcf.ucam.org> <20081230155035.8224ca86.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081230155035.8224ca86.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 03:50:35PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > One wonders whether this driver should really live in drivers/input/? Mm. There's certainly an argument for that given its current functionality, but the Dell WMI interface also exposes a bunch of other functionality - we just don't know how to use any of it right now. Moving it later might be more confusing. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org