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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] input: Add keycodes used by Lenovo Carbon X1 2014
From: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>, ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
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        linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:41:35 +0100
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On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 07:49 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015, at 07:15, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 21:34 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > On Wed, 18 Feb 2015, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > Signed-off-by: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
> > > 
> > > This one requires an ACK from the input maintainers, or no go...
> > 
> > Any comments about the other patches?
> 
> The series looks mostly good, but the new keymap and attributes need to
> go
> in the driver documentation (Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt),
> and some
> of the commit decriptions could use an update.
> 
> You could opt to change some of those keypresses dinamically into
> driver-specific
> ACPI events, by setting the keymap entry to KEY_RESERVED.  The driver
> will
> issue HKEY events in that case. That will be an viable alternative for
> some of the new
> keys.

I don't understand what you mean here.

> The beauty of it is that keymaps are configurable in run-time, so
> userspace can
> just set any key entries it wants to change to something else, and ACPI
> events will be
> suppressed if the entry is not set to KEY_RESERVED anymore.

Keymaps are already configurable at run-time, that's how udev changes
keymaps. Or did you mean something else?

> We need to be careful with tpacpi_input_send_key_masked(). If any of the
> codepaths
> could call it from the adaptative keyboard handling code,

But we're not calling it from there, are we?

>  it needs to be
> updated (just
> assume anything above 32 is enabled, as the firmware does not have an
> event mask
> for the new keycodes).


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