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Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:18:47 -0400 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> To: "Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> Cc: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>, "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" <hmh@....eng.br>, "Jeremy Katz" <katzj@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davej@...hat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads On 10/16/07, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:48:54PM -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: > > > real life example: hook up one of those fancy usb keyboards with volume buttons to > > your thinkpad. The volume keys on the thinkpad do adjust the volume, the ones on > > the USB keyboard do not - software needs to be able to distinguish between them, > > and sane defaults for these events need to not overlap. > > That's not a problem - they'll be coming from different input devices. > You could connect an external PS/2 keyboard and map some keys to control the volume/brightness there. It most likely will be the same device from the kerenl POV. More important - is brightness and volume are the only notifications userspace is interested in? Aren't there other events that might be interesting to userspace? -- Dmitry - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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