Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030768AbWJKDUa (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:20:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030769AbWJKDU3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:20:29 -0400 Received: from gateway.insightbb.com ([74.128.0.19]:39211 "EHLO asav00.insightbb.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030768AbWJKDU3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:20:29 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AY8CAE/+K0WMCSw From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:20:08 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Yu Luming , Alessandro Guido , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, gelma@gelma.net, ismail@pardus.org.tr References: <20060930190810.30b8737f.alessandro.guido@gmail.com> <200610102317.24310.luming.yu@gmail.com> <20061010212341.GA31972@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20061010212341.GA31972@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610102320.13952.dtor@insightbb.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1226 Lines: 26 On Tuesday 10 October 2006 17:23, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:17:23PM +0800, Yu Luming wrote: > > > Also, we need to make hot-key events have similar handling code . > > For example, Fn+F5 and Fn+F6 are brightness down and up key on my sony laptop. > > There is a driver called sonypi.c can map Fn+F5/F6 to KEY_FN_F5/F6. But I > > think It should be mapped to KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN/UP (linux/input.h) > > Although, sonypi.c is NOT so clean, but , if it can report right event to > > input layer for all sony laptop(it works for me), and all related functions > > can be controlled through generic sysfs interface, then I would say sony has > > the best hot-key solution I have even seen so far for linux. > > It would have to be DMI-based to some extent - not all Sonys use the > same keys for the same purpose. Misery ensues. > Then we need to add keymap table to the sonypi's input device so that keymap can be changed from userspace. -- Dmitry - 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/