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From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - 7:31 am

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:

So, I'd have to say it doesn't belong on the input layer AFAIK.

As I said, I am not against using the input layer for this, but currently
AFAIK it is not to be used for it.


But many do, and the less mud in the water, the better.


Perhaps.  But for that Dell case, there is already a proper notification
system in place as well: ACPI backlight events.  You might have to get
userspace to tell the ACPI video driver that it will handle the events
(something X.org already needs, anyway), but that's about it.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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[PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jeremy Katz, (Mon Oct 15, 1:45 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Mon Oct 15, 2:07 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jeremy Katz, (Mon Oct 15, 2:27 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Arjan van de Ven, (Mon Oct 15, 2:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jesse Barnes, (Mon Oct 15, 8:38 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Tue Oct 16, 1:36 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jesse Barnes, (Tue Oct 16, 1:49 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Tue Oct 16, 2:12 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Tue Oct 16, 2:18 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 6:00 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Tue Oct 16, 7:11 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 7:21 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 7:27 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Tue Oct 16, 7:31 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 7:40 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 7:54 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 8:54 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 8:59 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Tue Oct 16, 9:56 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 11:46 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 11:53 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 16, 12:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 12:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Renato S. Yamane, (Tue Oct 16, 12:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Tue Oct 16, 1:02 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jeremy Katz, (Tue Oct 16, 1:11 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 1:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 1:15 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 1:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Oct 16, 1:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dave Airlie, (Tue Oct 16, 1:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Kok, Auke, (Tue Oct 16, 1:48 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Tue Oct 16, 1:55 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 16, 2:18 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jesse Barnes, (Tue Oct 16, 7:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Tue Oct 16, 11:25 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Jesse Barnes, (Tue Oct 16, 11:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Tue Oct 16, 11:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Wed Oct 17, 8:57 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Matthew Garrett, (Wed Oct 17, 9:28 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Wed Oct 17, 10:35 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Wed Oct 17, 11:59 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Wed Oct 17, 1:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Thu Oct 18, 7:37 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Thu Oct 18, 3:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Dmitry Torokhov, (Tue Oct 23, 8:54 am)
Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads, Henrique de Moraes H ..., (Tue Oct 23, 4:34 pm)