Re: Add support for Eject hotkey in dell-wmi

[Matthew Garrett]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:44:09PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:

>    I've checked with the BIOS teams further, and they indicated at the time
>    that this is enabled on those consumer systems, the hotkey should be
>    switched over to a mechanical key rather than a software key, so the
>    keyboard interface would not see this key.  The support in the BIOS to
>    turn on and off WMI would actually enable SMI hot key events instead
>    (which could then be serviced by dell-laptop).

Ah, ok, that's fine. As long as the event will only be delivered either 
via WMI or the keyboard controller then we should be good.

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