Hi,

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 05:49:38PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Monday 08 June 2020 20:36:58 Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> > Can you please comment here how you would like to see events like this should come
> > through to userspace?
> > 
> > * Wrong power adapter (you have X and should have Y)
> > * You have plugged a dock into the wrong port
> > * Fn-lock mode
> 
> In my opinion, Fn-lock mode is related to input subsystem and should be
> probably reported via input device. For a user, fn-lock is similar like
> caps-lock, scroll-lock or num-lock. Also fn-lock is provided by other
> laptops and therefore I would expect that kernel provide fn-lock state
> for all laptops (thinkpad / latitude / ...) via same interface. And not
> via dell-specific interface or general-vendor-message interface.
> 
> Wrong power adapter sounds like something related to power subsystem.
> Adding Sebastian to the loop, maybe he can provide some useful ideas
> about it.

I'm missing a bit of context. I suppose this is about connecting a
non-genuine power adapter rejected by the embedded controller?
Support for that should be hooked into 'drivers/acpi/ac.c' (note:
so far there is no standard power-supply class property for this).
Also printing a warning to dmesg seems sensible.

-- Sebastian

> And plugged dock into wrong port. This is probably dell-specific event
> and some interface for "vendor" messages from kernel to userspace would
> be needed to deliver such things.