Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2009 20:18:17 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Add support for more dell-wmi hotkeys |
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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.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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