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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:41:50 -0800 From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> To: Mattia Dongili <malattia@...ux.it> Cc: Norbert Preining <preining@...ic.at>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ACPI Devel Mailing List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:18:50PM +0900, Mattia Dongili wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 02:16:42PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > > On Fr, 12 Nov 2010, Mattia Dongili wrote: > > > You will need an updated input-kbd to set the scancode map. > > > > Ouch. > > > > > > Does that mean that 2.6.37rc is too new for the user space? > > > > > > Maybe. Anyway if evtest reacts positively to key presses then it's a > > > userspace issue and not the driver's. > > > > What is strange that there *WAS* a change in the kernel that triggered > > that. Old kernels still work fine. I just tried 2.6.36 and it was working. > > > > I always thought that kernel changes should not break user space > > (well, without good reason). > > it's the same as this: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23022 > Right, we up-revved evdev protocol version to reflect the fact that it supports large scancodes but the procotocl is backwards-compatible and older userspace should have no problems talking with evdev and do remaps. For example, udev's keymap utility workds just fine here. Unfortunately input-kbd insists on working with only one version of the protocol instead if checking if the protocol "at least N". This shoudl be fixed in input-kbd. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- 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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