From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756207Ab0KPRmI (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:08 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:50330 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755897Ab0KPRmF (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:42:05 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=ucuDduD1CjCWMJ9g2+UpVlVMxJVGbBag0ml/1X8uGaqpcGPiFDMWo8tEOFJTAD8CfX 1qsYV3UQc4h8eAiYijZh3Y3l50VXg1pnMpPJKuSAIe2ueft+0WprRtAD33dU6f4ayzIq fanQo41GSqpRXEpkvYxxLa81ch7V9d8qcBf+w= Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:41:50 -0800 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Mattia Dongili Cc: Norbert Preining , Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ACPI Devel Mailing List Subject: Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working Message-ID: <20101116174150.GA31851@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20101110035833.GB3029@kamineko.org> <20101111235000.GA6651@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20101112034423.GA7407@srcf.ucam.org> <20101112035027.GD26742@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20101112035732.GB7574@srcf.ucam.org> <20101112042243.GE2852@kamineko.org> <20101112043922.GA19889@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20101112121742.GA17690@kamineko.org> <20101116051642.GA24410@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <20101116141849.GB2111@kamineko.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101116141849.GB2111@kamineko.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:18:50PM +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:16:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > On Fr, 12 Nov 2010, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > > You will need an updated input-kbd to set the scancode map. > > > > Ouch. > > > > > > Does that mean that 2.6.37rc is too new for the user space? > > > > > > Maybe. Anyway if evtest reacts positively to key presses then it's a > > > userspace issue and not the driver's. > > > > What is strange that there *WAS* a change in the kernel that triggered > > that. Old kernels still work fine. I just tried 2.6.36 and it was working. > > > > I always thought that kernel changes should not break user space > > (well, without good reason). > > it's the same as this: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23022 > Right, we up-revved evdev protocol version to reflect the fact that it supports large scancodes but the procotocl is backwards-compatible and older userspace should have no problems talking with evdev and do remaps. For example, udev's keymap utility workds just fine here. Unfortunately input-kbd insists on working with only one version of the protocol instead if checking if the protocol "at least N". This shoudl be fixed in input-kbd. Thanks. -- Dmitry