Re: [PATCH 2/2] toshiba_acpi: Add Satellite P50W-B to alternative keymap and create new mappings.

[Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>]

On 03/04/2015 07:05 PM, Azael Avalos wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> 2015-03-04 14:52 GMT-07:00 Joseph Salisbury <joseph.salisbury@canonical.com>:
> ...
>> +       { KE_KEY, 0x140, { KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN } },
>> +       { KE_KEY, 0x141, { KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP } },
> ...
>
> These two are not neccesary, as they may collide with "previous song"
> and "playpause" in case Toshiba (or its manufacturers) decide to use
> those keys.
>
> If you can, please test the first two patches from the gmane archive [1],
> they eliminate the need of the DMI matching list. And it would be great
> to have more laptops tested.
>
> [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.platform.x86.devel/6602
>
>
> Cheers
> Azael
>
>
Hi Azael,

There is some positive feedback with the first two patches:
toshiba_acpi: Add Hotkey Event Type function and definitions
toshiba_acpi: Use the Hotkey Event Type function for keymap choosing

$ uname -r
4.0.0-040000rc2-generic
$ acpi_listen
video/brightnessdown BRTDN 00000087 00000000
video/brightnessup BRTUP 00000086 00000000
video/switchmode VMOD 00000080 00000000 K
cd/prev CDPREV 00000080 00000000 K
cd/play CDPLAY 00000080 00000000 K
cd/next CDNEXT 00000080 00000000 K
button/volumedown VOLDN 00000080 00000000 K
button/volumeup VOLUP 00000080 00000000 K
button/mute MUTE 00000080 00000000 K
button/mute MUTE 00000080 00000000 K
button/wlan WLAN 00000080 00000000 K
button/volumedown VOLDN 00000080 00000000 K
button/volumeup VOLUP 00000080 00000000 K



Can you also cc this patch to stable when submitting it to mainline?

All the keys are working and the patch is allot cleaner!

Thanks again,

Joe