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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> in question. Probably simply adding separate key notify events (such
> as KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP_NOTIFY) to EV_KEY instead of creating EV_NOTIFY is
> not such a bad idea - this way we can fix keymap from userspace (if
> needed) instead of needing to modify the krenel.

That is a killer argument for EV_KEY over EV_NOTIFY if I have ever seen one.

> So, EV_KEY (and extending KEY_MAX to 1024) or EV_NOTIFY?

EV_KEY, please.

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  Henrique Holschuh
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