linux-kernel - Re: sony-laptop driver: Volume keys on Sony Vaio TX3 don't work

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Date:	Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:45:14 +0200
From:	John Hughes <john@...vaedi.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mattia Dongili <malattia@...ux.it>,
	Stelian Pop <stelian@...ies.net>
Subject: Re: sony-laptop driver: Volume keys on Sony Vaio TX3 don't work

On 10/16/2011 03:27 PM, John Hughes wrote:
> On 10/16/2011 01:11 PM, John Hughes wrote:
>> Even though sony-laptop has code to handle the volume-up/volume-down 
>> keys they don't work.  Pressing volume-down gets treated as 
>> SONYPI_EVENT_PKEY_P1 and volume-up as SONYPI_EVENT_PKEY_P2.
>
> And of course this bug has already been fixed.  Was looking at an old 
> version, 2.6.32, sorry.

Must learn to check before writing.

No, the problem has not been fixed in head.

Here's a patch that makes the volume keys work for me.  Tested on 
current git

# uname -a
Linux carbon 3.1.0-rc9+ #2 SMP Sun Oct 16 19:14:15 CEST 2011 i686 GNU/Linux



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