Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750822AbWAOUuq (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:50:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750819AbWAOUu0 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:50:26 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:61828 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750753AbWAOUt7 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Jan 2006 15:49:59 -0500 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:49:47 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Matthew Garrett cc: Ben Collins , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/15] sonypi: Enable ACPI events for Sony laptop hotkeys In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <0ISL001SM95JWW@a34-mta01.direcway.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 834 Lines: 23 >> Signed-off-by: Ben Collins > >The "right" way is probably actually to push ACPI hotkey events through >the input layer (like the Sony code does without this patch), but that's >currently a bit more awkward to handle in userspace. Since the right >answer here is clearly "Fix userspace", we probably don't want to be >merging this. > I certainly need this patch though, because it allows me to set the LCD brightness via /proc/acpi/sony/brightness. Jan Engelhardt -- | Alphagate Systems, http://alphagate.hopto.org/ | jengelh's site, http://jengelh.hopto.org/ - 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/