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From: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
To: "Michał Kępień" <kernel@kempniu.pl>
Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
	"Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant Launch hotkey processing
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:55:42 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151130205542.GD30553@malice.jf.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151130145458.GA5524@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl>

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:54:58PM +0100, Michał Kępień wrote:
> > The best would be if embedded controller could be configured to send
> > events via i8042 bus...
> 
> Yes, but if I correctly understand Mario's message back from July [1],
> V131's EC simply does not support generating scancodes at all.
> 
> > I'm starting to thing that blacklist or whitelist of machines is needed
> > to collect. And via it decide if WMI event will be accepted or dropped.
> 
> If you believe this is the way to go, I'm perfectly fine with that.

This is a common approach among platform drivers since we try to support
multiple products with a single driver.

Ideally, we could detect if this was necessary by the response of some ACPI call
or another, but failing that, DMI matching is our fallback.

-- 
Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center

  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-30 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-26 14:18 [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant Launch hotkey processing Michał Kępień
2015-11-26 14:41 ` Pali Rohár
2015-11-26 14:55   ` Michał Kępień
2015-11-29 19:50     ` Pali Rohár
2015-11-30 14:14       ` Michał Kępień
2015-11-30 14:37         ` Pali Rohár
2015-11-30 14:54           ` Michał Kępień
2015-11-30 20:55             ` Darren Hart [this message]
2015-11-30 21:15 ` Darren Hart
2015-12-01  8:47   ` Michał Kępień
2015-12-01 19:51   ` [PATCH v2] dell-wmi: process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Dell Vostro V131 Michał Kępień
2015-12-04  1:16     ` Darren Hart
2015-12-04  8:56       ` Pali Rohár
2015-12-04 13:27         ` Michał Kępień
2016-01-11 19:12           ` Darren Hart
2016-01-11 20:07             ` Pali Rohár
2016-01-21  9:04               ` Pali Rohár
2016-01-21 10:52                 ` Michał Kępień
2016-01-21 13:44                   ` Pali Rohár
2016-01-21 14:56                     ` Michał Kępień
2016-01-21 15:42                       ` Pali Rohár
2016-01-22 11:08                         ` Michał Kępień
2016-02-16 14:50                 ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Vostro V131 and Inspiron M5110 Michał Kępień
2016-02-16 14:50                   ` [PATCH v3 1/5] dell-laptop: move dell_smi_error() to dell-smbios Michał Kępień
2016-02-16 14:50                   ` [PATCH v3 2/5] dell-smbios: rename dell_smi_error() to dell_smbios_error() Michał Kępień
2016-02-16 14:50                   ` [PATCH v3 3/5] dell-wmi: enable receiving WMI events on Dell Vostro V131 Michał Kępień
2016-02-16 15:17                     ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-16 21:53                       ` Michał Kępień
2016-02-20  1:24                     ` Darren Hart
2016-02-22  8:56                       ` Michał Kępień
2016-02-22  9:03                         ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-22  9:13                           ` Michał Kępień
2016-02-22 21:17                         ` Darren Hart
2016-02-16 14:50                   ` [PATCH v3 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch hotkey Michał Kępień
2016-02-16 14:50                   ` [PATCH v3 5/5] dell-wmi: support Dell Inspiron M5110 Michał Kępień
2016-02-16 15:22                     ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-16 22:03                       ` Michał Kępień
2016-02-17 11:42                         ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-17 12:01                           ` Michał Kępień
2016-02-17 12:08                             ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-18  8:25                               ` Michał Kępień
2016-02-24  7:20                   ` [PATCH v4 0/5] Process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Vostro V131 and " Michał Kępień
2016-02-24  7:20                     ` [PATCH v4 1/5] dell-laptop: move dell_smi_error() to dell-smbios Michał Kępień
2016-02-29 12:52                       ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-29 20:22                         ` Michał Kępień
2016-02-29 20:24                           ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-29 20:41                             ` Michał Kępień
2016-02-29 22:50                               ` Darren Hart
2016-03-02 11:49                                 ` Michał Kępień
2016-03-03 11:38                                   ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-24  7:20                     ` [PATCH v4 2/5] dell-smbios: rename dell_smi_error() to dell_smbios_error() Michał Kępień
2016-02-29 12:53                       ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-24  7:20                     ` [PATCH v4 3/5] dell-wmi: enable receiving WMI events on Dell Vostro V131 Michał Kępień
2016-02-29 12:57                       ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-24  7:20                     ` [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch hotkey Michał Kępień
2016-02-29 12:59                       ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-29 20:31                         ` Michał Kępień
2016-02-29 20:39                           ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-29 20:49                             ` Michał Kępień
2016-02-29 20:56                               ` Pali Rohár
2016-02-29 23:00                                 ` Darren Hart
2016-03-02 12:35                                   ` Michał Kępień
2016-03-03 17:16                                     ` Darren Hart
2016-03-03 18:46                                       ` Michał Kępień
2016-03-03 20:47                                         ` Darren Hart
2016-02-29 23:00                           ` Darren Hart
2016-02-24  7:20                     ` [PATCH v4 5/5] dell-wmi: support Dell Inspiron M5110 Michał Kępień
2016-02-29 13:00                       ` Pali Rohár
2016-03-04 13:09                     ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Vostro V131 and " Michał Kępień
2016-03-04 13:09                       ` [PATCH v5 1/5] dell-laptop: move dell_smi_error() to dell-smbios Michał Kępień
2016-03-04 13:09                       ` [PATCH v5 2/5] dell-smbios: rename dell_smi_error() to dell_smbios_error() Michał Kępień
2016-03-04 13:09                       ` [PATCH v5 3/5] dell-wmi: enable receiving WMI events on Dell Vostro V131 Michał Kępień
2016-03-04 13:09                       ` [PATCH v5 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch hotkey Michał Kępień
2016-03-04 13:09                       ` [PATCH v5 5/5] dell-wmi: support Dell Inspiron M5110 Michał Kępień
2016-03-07  8:27                       ` [PATCH v5 0/5] Process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Vostro V131 and " Pali Rohár
2016-03-08 11:20                         ` Darren Hart
2015-12-04 12:55       ` [PATCH v2] dell-wmi: process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Dell Vostro V131 Michał Kępień
2015-12-04 16:04         ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-04  8:48     ` Pali Rohár
2015-12-04 12:36       ` Michał Kępień

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