Re: [PATCH] ideapad-laptop: add new driver

From: Ike Panhc
Date: Fri Aug 13 2010 - 22:57:11 EST


On 08/13/2010 05:34 PM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 17:27 +0800, Ike Panhc wrote:
>> Yes, IIRC EC will send i8042 keycode when you booting with QS button, not
>> with power button. atkbd.c reports unknown key after booting with QS button.
>
> That's interesting. I don't *ever* boot with the QS button; I get the
> keycodes when I boot normally. I tried the QS button precisely once, but
> only *after* I blew away the original contents of the hard drive with my
> MeeGo installation, so it didn't boot.
>
> Do you know how to restore it? Or do you have a copy of the 'lenovo-ec'
> module that it apparently contains?
>
> I did keep the Windows restore partition, just in case I needed to go
> back to it to get wireless working. But when I tried to recover, it told
> me it didn't like my partition table -- so I fixed that and next time I
> booted into the OS recovery, it just dumped me at a command prompt and
> didn't even manage to start the graphical recovery tool.
>
No, I received the ideapads without any OS preinstalled, and get the design
spec with NDA. I asked and got the approve to send the driver to mainline
kernel according to the spec.

Since your driver is pulled. I am happy to have another patch made against
your driver and post again.

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