From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752330AbaLCMkq (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 07:40:46 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:43579 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751013AbaLCMko (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Dec 2014 07:40:44 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2014 13:40:42 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Pali =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roh=E1r?= Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, Gabriele Mazzotta , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Side effect of pressing special keys Message-ID: <20141203124042.GA504@amd> References: <201411231441.17592@pali> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <201411231441.17592@pali> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun 2014-11-23 14:41:17, Pali Rohár wrote: > Hello, > > pressing some keys on laptops could cause some side effects. > > Example scenario 1: > > Laptop has Fn key for enabling/disabling WIFI and when that key > is pressed BIOS is doing two things: > > 1) Switch hard rfkill state of WIFI > 2) Report that Fn key was pressed to kernel > (either via i8042 bus or via ACPI/WMI) We should not really report that as a "key" to userspace. We might want to report that rfkill state changed.... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html