Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads

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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>

Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@...>, Jeremy Katz <katzj@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <davej@...>, Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads

Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 - 3:20 pm

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:14:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

quoted text> IOW, I think the thinkpad issue (and others like it) should be fixed by 
> splitting up the KEY_VOLUMEUP "key" into separate KEY_VOLUMEUP and 
> KEY_VOLUMEUP_NOTIFY key events, so that downstream user mode (and the 
> kernel itself, for that matter) can know whether it's a informational 
> message or whether it should be acted upon.

In principle I agree, but userspace already handles it. While it's 
certainly more correct, I'm not sure it provides any other real 
advantage.

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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)

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