From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
To: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/15] sonypi: Enable ACPI events for Sony laptop hotkeys
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 21:49:47 +0100 (MET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0601152149060.4240@yvahk01.tjqt.qr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EuRN6-0006Hu-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
>> Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
>
>The "right" way is probably actually to push ACPI hotkey events through
>the input layer (like the Sony code does without this patch), but that's
>currently a bit more awkward to handle in userspace. Since the right
>answer here is clearly "Fix userspace", we probably don't want to be
>merging this.
>
I certainly need this patch though, because it allows me to set the LCD
brightness via /proc/acpi/sony/brightness.
Jan Engelhardt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-15 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-04 22:00 [PATCH 08/15] sonypi: Enable ACPI events for Sony laptop hotkeys Ben Collins
2006-01-05 7:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-01-05 9:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-01-15 20:49 ` Jan Engelhardt [this message]
2006-01-16 0:21 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-01-16 12:00 ` Jan Engelhardt
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