From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ivo van Doorn Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] Hardware button support for Wireless cards: radiobtn Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 10:02:29 +0200 Message-ID: <200606041002.33696.IvDoorn@gmail.com> References: <200605251716.00742.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <200606021630.34544.IvDoorn@gmail.com> <200606031045.08763.stefan@loplof.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1940879.2k0yvYH2KY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Francois Romieu , netdev@vger.kernel.org, rt2400-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.189]:22478 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932143AbWFDH7a (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jun 2006 03:59:30 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so1608323nfb for ; Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:59:29 -0700 (PDT) To: Stefan Rompf In-Reply-To: <200606031045.08763.stefan@loplof.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org --nextPart1940879.2k0yvYH2KY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 3 June 2006 10:45, Stefan Rompf wrote: > Am Freitag 02 Juni 2006 16:30 schrieb Ivo van Doorn: >=20 > > > Or actually, I don't think the radiobtn/ won't be actually needed as > > > prefix. The name passed to the radiobtn driver by the driver should be > > > sufficient. > > > > Updated version, > > > > Signed-off-by Ivo van Doorn >=20 > I don't like the patch in it's current form. Many notebooks have a number= of=20 > additional keys that need to be queried/polled using the same interface, = but=20 > just one button is to control the radio, the rest are multimedia keys tha= t=20 > just need to be forwarded to userspace. Or maybe a bluetooth key. Except for the bluetooth radio key (which should be supported by the radiob= tn interface as well) the other buttons have support through already excisting input devices if I= am correct. This radiobtn driver is there to poll the device frequently about the radio= state only since that is one of the few buttons that is not sending anything to usersp= ace at the moment. Ivo --nextPart1940879.2k0yvYH2KY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEgpOZaqndE37Em0gRAmjGAKCpHHWC6evyX27DiKjvzYjq9PPglACbB2IS NbxUpjLDVdVo9rwP2NyD1qg= =bTtV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1940879.2k0yvYH2KY--