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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:23:41 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> To: Yu Luming <luming.yu@...il.com> Cc: Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, len.brown@...el.com, jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de, gelma@...ma.net, ismail@...dus.org.tr Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 11:17:23PM +0800, Yu Luming wrote: > Also, we need to make hot-key events have similar handling code . > For example, Fn+F5 and Fn+F6 are brightness down and up key on my sony laptop. > There is a driver called sonypi.c can map Fn+F5/F6 to KEY_FN_F5/F6. But I > think It should be mapped to KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN/UP (linux/input.h) > Although, sonypi.c is NOT so clean, but , if it can report right event to > input layer for all sony laptop(it works for me), and all related functions > can be controlled through generic sysfs interface, then I would say sony has > the best hot-key solution I have even seen so far for linux. It would have to be DMI-based to some extent - not all Sonys use the same keys for the same purpose. Misery ensues. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org - 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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