linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] eeepc-wmi: Add support for T101MT "Express Gate" key

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <AANLkTinPAwWOONsD=DTM0go1_kb_DKaCeUk4dJ1Nvftz@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:08:41 +0000
From:	Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	Chris Bagwell <chris@...bagwell.com>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] eeepc-wmi: Add support for T101MT "Express Gate" key

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:00:14AM -0500, Chris Bagwell wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Corentin Chary
>> <corentin.chary@...il.com> wrote:
>> >> I would suggest sending BTN_HOME upon button release 0xe5 (not press
>> >> 0xe4 and do the autorelease because of it) and BTN_PROG2 on
>> >> press-and-hold 0xea.
>> >>
>> >> If you press-and-hold, does it still send the 0xe5 upon release?  That
>> >> could complicate things so that both button events do not get sent.
>> >>
>> >> I'm not sure what BTN_HOME is commonly used for.  This button does
>> >> sound like a HOME button in iPad sense but not in web browser sense.
>> >
>> > Except the fact that I don't find BTN_HOME in inpout.h, that's seems a
>> > better idea, forget what I've said earlier.
>>
>> Ha... Sorry, I had buttons on my brain.  I meant KEY_HOME as you suggested.
>>
>> >
>> > 0xe4 -> KEY_IGNORE
>> > 0xe5 -> KEY_HOME
>> > 0xea -> KEY_PROG2, (or BTN_TASK to copy android/iOS ?)
>>
>> From a quick google, I couldn't finding any specific meaning of
>> BTN_TASK but it looks like xf86-input-evdev turns it into a button
>> press so we may not want that one.
>>
>
> It was one of additional keys on Logitech mice IIRC.

I thinks it's the same as KEY_CYCLEWINDOWS (there are little windows
on the button).

-- 
Corentin Chary
http://xf.iksaif.net
--
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/