Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Mar 2010 15:46:14 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | 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 11:39:29PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > 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.
I'm pretty sure that Joey is using rfkill here, but I didn't realize that it also supported an input device.
This code is just detecting the keypress, and acting on it, I think, right Joey? Isn't that the way this is supposed to work? Or is it supposed to use rfkill-input, which then userspace turns around and calls the other rfkill interface to then disable the wireless? If so, I think a number of laptop drivers need to be changed to do this.
thanks,
greg k-h
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