| Date | Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:39:29 +0000 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 58/62] msi-laptop: Support some MSI 3G netbook that is need load SCM |
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 03:28:57PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > From: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@novell.com> > > Some MSI 3G netbook only have one fn key to control Wlan/Bluetooth/3G, > those netbook will load the SCM (windows app) to disable the original > Wlan/Bluetooth control by BIOS when user press fn key, then control > Wlan/Bluetooth/3G by SCM (software control by OS). Without SCM, user > cann't on/off 3G module on those 3G netbook. > On Linux, msi-laptop driver will do the same thing to disable the > original BIOS control, then might need use HAL or other userland > application to do the software control that simulate with SCM. > e.g. MSI N034 netbook
How does the function key event get reported to userland? This should generate KEY_RFKILL and then just go through rfkill-input.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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