From: Karol Kozimor <kkozimor@aurox.org>
Organization: Aurox Sp. z o.o.
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Sonypi driver model & PM changes
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:32:47 +0200
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On Tuesday 26 of October 2004 00:12, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > * allocate a FN key event and let FN be a modifier.
> >
> >   This is much nicer (less events allocated in input.h), but I haven't
> >   found a way (and I'm not sure there is one) to say to X that Fn is
>
> I think this is *bad* idea. In such case, userland would see
> Fn-F3. My notebook has "sleep" key on Fn-F3, but your notebook
> probably has something else there. You'd need another mapping in
> userspace...
>
> I believe Fn-F3 on my machine is meant to be replacement for hardware
> sleep button (and it has sleep label on it!), and we really should
> generate sleep event for Fn-F3...

Then map the button to invoke the suspend script in userspace. First we're 
mapping ACPI events to input events, then the other way around? Sounds 
fishy to me.
Best regards,

-- 
Karol Kozimor
kkozimor@aurox.org
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