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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:55:42 -0800 From: Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org> To: Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl> Cc: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant Launch hotkey processing On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:54:58PM +0100, Michał Kępień wrote: > > The best would be if embedded controller could be configured to send > > events via i8042 bus... > > Yes, but if I correctly understand Mario's message back from July [1], > V131's EC simply does not support generating scancodes at all. > > > I'm starting to thing that blacklist or whitelist of machines is needed > > to collect. And via it decide if WMI event will be accepted or dropped. > > If you believe this is the way to go, I'm perfectly fine with that. This is a common approach among platform drivers since we try to support multiple products with a single driver. Ideally, we could detect if this was necessary by the response of some ACPI call or another, but failing that, DMI matching is our fallback. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center -- 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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