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From: "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
To: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com
Cc: y.linux@paritcher.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new keymap type 0x0012
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 10:04:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200609080428.bjlimc2mfhn6hjbs@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fe431cacbc4708962767668ac8f06f@AUSX13MPC105.AMER.DELL.COM>

On Monday 08 June 2020 15:40:53 Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> > dell_wmi: Unknown WMI event type 0x12
> > dell_wmi: Unknown key with type 0x0012 and code 0xe035 pressed
> 
> Event type 0x12 is for "System Events".  This is the type of events that
> you typically would see come in for things "like" the wrong power adapter
> being plugged in on Windows or stuff about plugging a Thunderbolt dock into
> a port that doesn't support Thunderbolt.
> 
> A message might look something like (paraphrased)
> "Your system requires a 180W power adapter to charge effectively, but you
> plugged in a 60W adapter."
> 
> There often is extended data with these events.  As such I don't believe all
> information in event type 0x0012 should be treated like scan codes like those in
> 0x10 or 0x11.
> 
> I would guess that Fn-lock on this machine probably has extended data in the next
> showing whether it was turned on and off.  If it does, perhaps it makes sense to
> send this information to userspace as an evdev switch instead.

Thank you for information!

Interesting is that I got this email only now, after all other emails in
this thread. But seems that you have wrote it prior I asked question
about documentation for these events. So probably some email delivery
problem / delay.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-09  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-08  4:22 [PATCH 0/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: new keys Y Paritcher
2020-06-08  4:22 ` [PATCH 1/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new backlight events Y Paritcher
2020-06-08  8:35   ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-08 15:30     ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-08 20:11       ` Y Paritcher
2020-06-08 20:14         ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-08 20:36           ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-08 20:38             ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-08  4:22 ` [PATCH 2/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new keymap type 0x0012 Y Paritcher
2020-06-08  8:50   ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-08 20:12     ` Y Paritcher
2020-06-08 15:40   ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-08 20:12     ` Y Paritcher
2020-06-08 20:30       ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-08 20:36       ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-08 21:03         ` Y Paritcher
2020-06-08 22:00           ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-08 22:53             ` Y Paritcher
2020-06-09 10:44         ` Hans de Goede
2020-06-09 15:36           ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-09 16:14             ` Hans de Goede
2020-06-09 19:41               ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-09 15:49         ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-09 16:45           ` Sebastian Reichel
2020-06-09 16:59             ` Hans de Goede
2020-06-19 15:31               ` Sebastian Reichel
2020-06-19 17:26                 ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-09  8:04     ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2020-06-08  4:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add keys to bios_to_linux_keycode Y Paritcher
2020-06-08  6:36   ` kernel test robot
2020-06-08  7:36   ` kernel test robot
2020-06-08  9:00   ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-08 15:46     ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-08 20:12       ` Y Paritcher
2020-06-08 20:48       ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-08 20:58         ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-09  8:27           ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-08 23:05 ` [PATCH v2 0/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: new keys Y Paritcher
2020-06-08 23:05   ` [PATCH v2 1/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new backlight events Y Paritcher
2020-06-08 23:24     ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-08 23:05   ` [PATCH v2 2/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new keymap type 0x0012 Y Paritcher
2020-06-08 23:33     ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-09  0:26       ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-09  0:57         ` Y Paritcher
2020-06-09  8:40           ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-09  8:50         ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-08 23:05   ` [PATCH v2 3/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new dmi keys to bios_to_linux_keycode Y Paritcher
2020-06-08 23:27     ` Randy Dunlap
2020-06-08 23:55       ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-09  0:43         ` Y Paritcher
2020-06-09  8:35           ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-09 19:49         ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-10  9:44           ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-10 12:35             ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-12 14:14               ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-12 14:59                 ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-09  3:52 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: new keys Y Paritcher
2020-06-09  3:52   ` [PATCH v3 1/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new backlight events Y Paritcher
2020-06-09 16:02     ` Mario.Limonciello
2020-06-09  3:52   ` [PATCH v3 2/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new keymap type 0x0012 Y Paritcher
2020-06-09  3:52   ` [PATCH v3 3/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new dmi mapping for keycode 0xffff Y Paritcher
2020-06-09  9:19     ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-10 17:56 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: new keys Y Paritcher
2020-06-10 17:56   ` [PATCH v4 1/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new backlight events Y Paritcher
2020-06-10 17:56   ` [PATCH v4 2/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new keymap type 0x0012 Y Paritcher
2020-06-10 17:56   ` [PATCH v4 3/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: add new dmi mapping for keycode 0xffff Y Paritcher
2020-06-10 19:22   ` [PATCH v4 0/3] platform/x86: dell-wmi: new keys Mario.Limonciello
2020-07-09 19:29     ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-07-13  7:29       ` Pali Rohár
2020-08-14  8:10         ` Pali Rohár
2020-06-12 14:09   ` Pali Rohár

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