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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes
    On Wednesday 22 June 2016 14:21:25 Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com wrote:
    > > > For Linux I don’t think this is necessary and a NOOP is appropriate.
    > > >
    > > > There is also a second place that some older laptops had a battery "hotkey"
    > > > that would also emit 0xE00E. This was also picked up by quickset and would
    > > > show battery information.
    > > >
    > > > This shouldn't be blocked by kernel, I'd expect if someone wants to bind
    > > this
    > > > to another application from userspace they should be able to.
    > >
    > > Great! Can I send patch after which 0xe00e will be send to input layer as
    > > event KEY_BATTERY?
    > >
    >
    > Well that's why I was mentioning this in two places. If it's received from keyboard
    > recoding it as KEY_BATTERY sounds appropriate to me. If it's received from WMI,
    > it really shouldn't be set as anything for Linux to do.
    >
    > I don't think any apps will benefit from the notification to re-read battery
    > Information today.

    I mean for dell-wmi.c code.
    Why it should not be set to anything on Linux?

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    Pali Rohár
    pali.rohar@gmail.com

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