Re: [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Add full hotkey support

Daniel Silverstone
2009-03-06T09:47:42Z

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 09:08 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 00:52 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Calling the ENAB method on Toshiba laptops results in notifications
> > being sent when laptop hotkeys are pressed. This patch simply calls that
> > method and sets up an input device if it's successful.
> Great news - no polling!

No polling is definitely a good thing.

> Definitely +1 from me.

I'll be a touch less gung-ho than Richard though.

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. 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?

How will it interact with software stacks like HAL when the lock button
is pressed?

The patch itself looks clean and nice, I'm just concerned about its
behaviour from laptop-to-laptop. Particularly the key-map thing.

D.

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