From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754892AbbK3Uzr (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:55:47 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:46471 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754398AbbK3Uzo (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:55:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:55:42 -0800 From: Darren Hart To: =?utf-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBLxJlwaWXFhA==?= Cc: Pali =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roh=E1r?= , Matthew Garrett , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant Launch hotkey processing Message-ID: <20151130205542.GD30553@malice.jf.intel.com> References: <1f6ac54784b39ebb6ce02a9fb9e944c840fddb7b.1448547341.git.kernel@kempniu.pl> <20151126144130.GI14190@pali> <20151126145556.GA9371@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl> <201511292050.18883@pali> <20151130141400.GA5398@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl> <20151130143756.GC29576@pali> <20151130145458.GA5524@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20151130145458.GA5524@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:54:58PM +0100, Michał Kępień wrote: > > The best would be if embedded controller could be configured to send > > events via i8042 bus... > > Yes, but if I correctly understand Mario's message back from July [1], > V131's EC simply does not support generating scancodes at all. > > > I'm starting to thing that blacklist or whitelist of machines is needed > > to collect. And via it decide if WMI event will be accepted or dropped. > > If you believe this is the way to go, I'm perfectly fine with that. This is a common approach among platform drivers since we try to support multiple products with a single driver. Ideally, we could detect if this was necessary by the response of some ACPI call or another, but failing that, DMI matching is our fallback. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center