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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] Add support for more dell-wmi hotkeys
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 02:16:47PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Hi Matthew:
>
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Hm. But if we get the scancode, presumably we can do this anyway?
> >
> Yes, this information might not be as useful on Linux as it is for the
> Windows situation. On Windows, the WMI event doesn't translate directly
> into a key, but rather a userspace application makes the changes. As it
> stands right now, the keys still don't do anything with my patch(s).
> They're at least documented however in case someone would like to change
> this behavior at some point.

Ok. As long as there's a way of determining when a platform no longer
sends scancodes (and so we can switch to WMI delivery), then that seems
fine.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org


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