From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@simtec.co.uk>
Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, toshiba_acpi@memebeam.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Add full hotkey support
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:56:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090306095623.GA6014@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236332843.19146.4.camel@petitemort>
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:47:23AM +0000, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> Have you looked at whether or not this method functions on more than the
> one laptop? Toshiba are notoriously good at getting their own interfaces
> wrong from one laptop to another.
It's present on every Toshiba DSDT I have that has a VALD/VALZ method.
> In addition, the fn+whatever keymaps are often different between
> laptops, especially for things like the WWW or MAIL buttons.
> Presumably if the hotkeys fail to activate then the normal
> /proc/acpi/toshiba/keys thing will continue?
Yes, it'll be as functional as it was previously. They can be remapped
on machines that have a different keymap.
> How will it interact with software stacks like HAL when the lock button
> is pressed?
I don't really understand the question?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-06 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-06 0:39 [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Add full hotkey support Matthew Garrett
2009-03-06 0:52 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-06 9:08 ` Richard Hughes
2009-03-06 9:47 ` Daniel Silverstone
2009-03-06 9:56 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-03-06 10:04 ` Daniel Silverstone
2009-03-06 10:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-06 10:12 ` Daniel Silverstone
2009-03-06 10:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-06 10:21 ` Daniel Silverstone
2009-03-06 18:49 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-03-06 18:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-06 18:37 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-03-06 18:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-06 18:57 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-03-07 7:27 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-03-07 15:06 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-07 15:38 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-03-07 15:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-07 20:19 ` Richard Hughes
2009-03-07 20:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-08 8:33 ` Richard Hughes
2009-03-08 14:29 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2009-03-08 14:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-09 17:11 ` Len Brown
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