Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:47943 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754757Ab0BQUCg (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:02:36 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:02:33 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Christian Lamparter , johannes@sipsolutions.net, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, marcel@holtmann.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] input: Add KEY_RFKILL Message-ID: <20100217200233.GA24976@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1266356185-10324-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> <20100217052247.GD7160@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100217180342.GA22522@srcf.ucam.org> <22ee4e771002171043u2aaf97vd73c1090c2fce901@mail.gmail.com> <20100217191708.GA15554@core.coreip.homeip.net> <22ee4e771002171142q1496842ap4079026a5c0be8c6@mail.gmail.com> <20100217195435.GA15742@core.coreip.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <20100217195435.GA15742@core.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:54:35AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Is there anything currently in works that would make use of this button? > I do not want to allocate keycode "for the future" which may never come. > We did it with KEY_BATTERY but I do not think anyone actually uses it. KEY_BATTERY is heavily used in userspace. I think all the hardware that generates it does so via i8042 rather than a platform driver, so it wouldn't show up in the kernel. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org