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

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Message-ID: <81436.1318801813@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Sun, 16 Oct 2011 17:50:13 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Mattia Dongili <malattia@...ux.it>
Cc:	John Hughes <john@...vaedi.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stelian Pop <stelian@...ies.net>,
	platform-driver-x86 <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sony-laptop driver: Volume keys on Sony Vaio TX3 don't work

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:38:01 +0900, Mattia Dongili said:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 02:20:18PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> > Do we know if this is applicable to all Sony laptops, or only a few busticated
> > models?
>
> I believe the latter is the case, the old A series also had this
> problem. Of course applying the patch will break other models (SZ is one
> I'm sure about) so there is no actual winner here unless we figure out
> how to properly decode keys on sonypi models (this problem is
> specifically related to two phase hotkey decoding, see the irq handler).

And let me guess - two phase hotkey decoding is sufficiently weird that
nobody wants to actually fix *that* code, right? (Rhetorical question, I
already know the answer to that one).

If that's not an option, perhaps we need a per-model quirk that patches up the
tables at boot time?  If we do that, we may want to re-arrange the table so the
affected entries are at the front or something to help insure we don't patch
the wrong entries if somebody else inserts new lines.

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