Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261412AbVBNK47 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:56:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261414AbVBNK47 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:56:59 -0500 Received: from sd291.sivit.org ([194.146.225.122]:34003 "EHLO sd291.sivit.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261412AbVBNK45 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Feb 2005 05:56:57 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:58:37 +0100 From: Stelian Pop To: Matthew Garrett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver Message-ID: <20050214105837.GE3233@crusoe.alcove-fr> Reply-To: Stelian Pop Mail-Followup-To: Stelian Pop , Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net References: <20050210161809.GK3493@crusoe.alcove-fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1534 Lines: 35 On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 10:53:10AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Stelian Pop wrote: > > > Privately I've had many positive feedbacks from users of this driver > > (and no negative feedback), including Linux distributions who wish > > to include it into their kernels. The reports are increasing in number, > > it would seem that newer Sony Vaios are more and more incompatible > > with sonypi and require sony_acpi to control the screen brightness. > > The sonypi driver seems to be necessary to catch Vaio hotkey events, > including the sleep button. I've checked a couple of DSDTs, and it seems > that the more recent Vaios are lacking the SPIC entries but still don't > have the sleep button defined. Is there any chance of this driver being > able to catch hotkey events? I don't believe so. > Related to that, I have a nastyish hack which lets the sonypi driver > generate ACPI events whenever a hotkey is pressed. Despite not strictly > being ACPI events, this makes it much easier to integrate sonypi stuff > with general ACPI support. I'll send it if you're interested. Wouldn't be more useful to make the ACPI hotkeys generate an input event (like sonypi does) and integrate all this at the input level ? Stelian. -- Stelian Pop - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/