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

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Message-ID: <20090307202647.GA9776@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Sat, 7 Mar 2009 20:26:47 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Richard Hughes <hughsient@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hal@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Add full hotkey support

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:19:51PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:

> Mapping KEY_SUSPEND to hibernate is just insane. Can you please change
> the toshiba driver to use KEY_HIBERNATE and KEY_SUSPEND as thinkpad
> now does? Thanks.

Mapping KEY_SUSPEND to hibernate is what we've been doing for years. 
It's what hal *still does*. KEY_SLEEP has been the suspend to RAM key 
forever. How are we supposed to perform this transition? We've no idea 
how much of userspace makes the same assumption.

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