Re: [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Add full hotkey support

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On 8 ÐÐÑÑÐ 2009 11:33:48 Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:19:51PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> >> Mapping KEY_SUSPEND to hibernate is just insane. Can you please
> >> change the toshiba driver to use KEY_HIBERNATE and KEY_SUSPEND as
> >> thinkpad now does? Thanks.
> >
> > Mapping KEY_SUSPEND to hibernate is what we've been doing for
> > years. It's what hal *still does*.
>
> Sure, but how much userspace now listens to HAL for these events?

Apparently KDE still does. At least it does not seem to pay any 
attention to KEY_SUSPEND (nor KEY_SLEEP BTW).

And KDE seems to be important enough customer to not wish to break HAL.

> Xorg and evdev has taken over that role for all the session.

Oh, wait. But even Xorg 1.6.0 interprets KEY_SUSPEND as "hibernate".

KeyPress event, serial 31, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
    root 0xbc, subw 0x0, time 87299792, (81,-11), root:(817,290),
    state 0x0, keycode 213 (keysym 0x1008ffa8, XF86Hibernate), 
same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

So redefining KEY_SUSPEND is going to break Xorg too (as long as anyone 
is using those keysyms).

> We can
> ship a trivial patch as an fdi file to HAL to remap this if required.
>
> > KEY_SLEEP has been the suspend to RAM key forever.

Ehh ... actually at least in Toshiba case it was not :) hald Toshiba 
add-on always emitted exactly "suspend" and "hibernate" D-Bus events. 
Not "sleep".

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