Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933773AbXJPPyt (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:54:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934376AbXJPPyg (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:54:36 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.190]:23745 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934360AbXJPPye (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:54:34 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=nAmLVzjsPYjqdSFDpMF6P1h0nshuNDxu1x9fVDJk0kdLf1d8a8IGAN/P3xUqrzA0QpnR9CBn4RV2sH/QzWp3BUd8PEaA4RXMAZC4a0Ay48gHyAZgVoc8ytF/Owl3Ds7HzrZIP5O2pq6MJSJNJJuDGXaSiBWIjaOkCK5mAEbQ1aE= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:54:31 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" To: "Matthew Garrett" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads Cc: "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" , "Jeremy Katz" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, davej@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20071016145412.GC21749@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1192481110-9299-1-git-send-email-katzj@redhat.com> <20071015210737.GA15293@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20071016130053.GA20010@srcf.ucam.org> <20071016141153.GA3237@khazad-dum.debian.net> <20071016145412.GC21749@srcf.ucam.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 998 Lines: 24 On 10/16/07, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:27:11AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > I want to add the ability to add "filetrs" to i8042 keyboard ports so > > that certain bytes that represent state changes (battery events, > > wireless, etc.) can be diverted from keyboard serio port (and atkbd > > driver) and be processed by a separate driver(s). > > This seems to add complexity. I'm not sure why the input layer isn't the > natural way of reporting events generated by a user pressing a key on > the keyboard? > I think there was a laptop that sent vierd bytes over KBC port when you plug AC cord into it and pulled it out again. So it's not only keys. Don't have a reference handy though. -- 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/