Re: sony-laptop driver: Volume keys on Sony Vaio TX3 don't work

[John Hughes <john@Calva.COM>]

On 17/10/11 23:43, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 01:17:00AM +0200, John Hughes wrote:
>    
>> Ok, what is "two phase hotkey decoding?"
>>      
> basically the driver receives in IRQ, reads from the IO port a value
> that turns out to be a generic value that means "got a hotkey" and needs
> to write one more command to the IO port and wait for another IRQ that
> potentially has the information about what hotkey was pressed.
>
> The part we're currently missing is what to write to the IO port for
> some models.
>
> See type3_handle_irq in the source and type3_events: most of those with
> data=0x05 require extra handling that we are not doing.
> On the second IRQ you get some data=0x31 and the actual event.
>
>    
Oh, I see.

Poking around in the dark.  What fun.

I'll see if I can think of any useful experiments.