> > But it *is* a key press!
quoted text >
> To get somewhat back on track: volume and brightness (and similar - lid
> close etc) events clearly are keypresses.
>
> However, I would also argue that a keypress that is acted on by the
> firmware automatically is *different* from a keypress that hasn't been
> acted on: one is a "key was pressed *and* hardware did something
> automatically", and the other is just a "key was pressed" event.
>
We also have cases where userspace may have told ACPI to stop the
firmware acting on the keypress which may or may not be known to the
piece of the kernel dealing with keypresses... hence just pass the key
up to userspace and let it deal with it.
Dave.
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Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads , Dave Airlie , (Tue Oct 16, 4:32 pm)