linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads

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Message-ID: <20071017162827.GA9778@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:28:28 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	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 Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:57:18AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> say that they only care about notifications arising from keypresses
> then I will add EV_NOTIFY type of events to input layer. What events
> would we need? I can imagine:

Why use EV_NOTIFY? They're still keys. I'd also quibble with the need 
for adding _NOTIFY varients of already existing keys - the existing 
consumers can all cope already.

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