linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Add full hotkey support

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Date:	Sat, 7 Mar 2009 15:44:24 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
Cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hal@...ts.freedesktop.org, Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Add full hotkey support

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 06:38:53PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

> - patch toshiba_acpi to return KEY_SUSPEND/KEY_HIBERNATE instead of 
> KEY_SLEEP/KEY_SUSPEND. This depends on commit 
> 6932b918e05b06165ed3457a9f3aa279099a7cbd in linux-next.
> 
> - patch HAL to recognize KEY_HIBERNATE and return "suspend" for 
> KEY_SUSPEND; right now it is:
> 
>         [KEY_SLEEP] = "sleep",
>         [KEY_SUSPEND] = "hibernate",

Ugh. Why are we changing this? The semantics were pretty clear before. 
The KEY_SUSPEND to hibernate mapping was decided years ago, and it's 
clearly an incompatible change as far as userspace goes.

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