Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:14:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> IOW, I think the thinkpad issue (and others like it) should be fixed by 
> splitting up the KEY_VOLUMEUP "key" into separate KEY_VOLUMEUP and 
> KEY_VOLUMEUP_NOTIFY key events, so that downstream user mode (and the 
> kernel itself, for that matter) can know whether it's a informational 
> message or whether it should be acted upon.

In principle I agree, but userspace already handles it. While it's 
certainly more correct, I'm not sure it provides any other real 
advantage.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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