Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:33:47 -0800 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [git pull 02/14] Add Wistron driver |
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Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:38:44AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote: > > > No. The ACPI Mafia^H^H^Hintainers :-) no longer accept any hotkey drivers > > > and IIUC it will be reimplemented in a generic driver. This driver > > > then should pipe the hotkey events to the input subsystem. > > > > hm. It seems a fairly bad idea to remove functionality before that > > functionality has been implemented by the other means and has been rolled > > out by distros for some time. > > pcc_acpi never was in the acpi tree or in mainline AFAIK.
It was in my tree in March 2005. I guess it's one of those things that never got merged further.
> But it is nevertheless an example that it is not too hard to route hotkey > events through the input subsystem :-)
Well whatever - it's an area in which we sorely need more functionality. How long have we been waiting for the "proper" implementations? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.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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