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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

  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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