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Message-ID: <20071016145412.GC21749@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:54:12 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
	Jeremy Katz <katzj@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, davej@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 10:27:11AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> I want to add the ability to add "filetrs" to i8042 keyboard ports so
> that certain bytes that represent state changes (battery events,
> wireless, etc.) can be diverted from keyboard serio port (and atkbd
> driver) and be processed by a separate driver(s).

This seems to add complexity. I'm not sure why the input layer isn't the 
natural way of reporting events generated by a user pressing a key on 
the keyboard?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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