Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] toshiba_acpi: Add blacklist for models withhotkey problems

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Jan 05 2012 - 15:09:31 EST


On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 02:04:32PM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 07:34:31PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > In that case, can you check for the presence of the WMI interface and
> > then refuse to bind? That's seem far simpler than adding an unknown
> > number of systems to the blacklist.
>
> Hmm, I suppose I could look for the specific WMI event guid, although
> the relationship between the two seems tenuous at best. It would make
> sense to me if we were refusing to bind because there was a better
> interface available, but Toshiba is obviously treating hotkeys on the
> WMI interface as legacy since it's disabled in the BIOS for Vista or
> later. INFO seems to be the preferred interface.

...but doesn't work?

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