Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161139AbWJKQt5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:49:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161141AbWJKQt5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:49:57 -0400 Received: from zeus1.kernel.org ([204.152.191.4]:10649 "EHLO zeus1.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161138AbWJKQt4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:49:56 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=S066qlF4o4zx8bZNqs5sOXtub8Ww+ekFnHPy+46mInAh3GRQ3bsygwgCio+57nUGYPLBV2RiRKoItHfyfxvWqO5RljMqlU6jWdphyqZCSv0UqinXFdETvMTyg7jctEDgh/OvcE3yjAdeNBmoyYtzvr+dnNrKTeamX9NlVw9WOBI= From: Yu Luming Organization: gmail To: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:48:19 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 Cc: Matthew Garrett , 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> <20061010212341.GA31972@srcf.ucam.org> <200610102320.13952.dtor@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: <200610102320.13952.dtor@insightbb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610120048.19953.luming.yu@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 16 > > 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. If some key is physically broken, I agree configurable keymap is the only solution. But, I don't see any other benefit of doing so, if we expect platform specific driver report meaningful key code to input layer. Thanks, Luming - 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/