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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...>
To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@...>
Cc: Jeremy Katz <katzj@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <torvalds@...>, <davej@...>, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - 10:21 am

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:11:53PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

Yes, the firmware acts upon it.


Userspace is going to have to deal with this case anyway. Some vendors 
simply don't let us distinguish.


It's not always going to be possible to tie notifications into a class 
device - in the Dell case, for instance, interacting with the backlight 
requires you to use a 200Kb library so has to be done in userspace.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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[PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jeremy Katz, (Mon Oct 15, 4:45 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 2:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Renato S. Yamane, (Tue Oct 16, 3:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Mon Oct 15, 5:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 9:00 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Tue Oct 16, 10:11 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 10:27 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 10:54 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 11:54 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 11:59 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 10:21 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Tue Oct 16, 10:31 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 10:40 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Tue Oct 16, 12:56 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 2:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 16, 3:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dave Airlie, (Tue Oct 16, 4:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 4:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 16, 4:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Wed Oct 17, 11:57 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Wed Oct 17, 12:28 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Wed Oct 17, 1:35 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Wed Oct 17, 2:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Wed Oct 17, 4:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Thu Oct 18, 10:37 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Thu Oct 18, 6:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 23, 11:54 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Tue Oct 23, 7:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Kok, Auke, (Tue Oct 16, 4:48 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 4:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 5:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jeremy Katz, (Tue Oct 16, 4:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 4:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 3:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Tue Oct 16, 4:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 4:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jesse Barnes, (Mon Oct 15, 11:38 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Tue Oct 16, 4:36 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jesse Barnes, (Tue Oct 16, 4:49 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Tue Oct 16, 5:18 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jesse Barnes, (Tue Oct 16, 10:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Wed Oct 17, 2:25 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jesse Barnes, (Wed Oct 17, 2:32 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Wed Oct 17, 2:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Oct 15, 5:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jeremy Katz, (Mon Oct 15, 5:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh..., (Tue Oct 16, 5:12 am)