Re: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes

[Pali RohÃr]

On Wednesday 22 June 2016 14:21:25 Mario_Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > For Linux I donât think this is necessary and a NOOP is appropriate.
> > >
> > > There is also a second place that some older laptops had a battery "hotkey"
> > > that would also emit 0xE00E.  This was also picked up by quickset and would
> > > show battery information.
> > >
> > > This shouldn't be blocked by kernel, I'd expect if someone wants to bind
> > this
> > > to another application from userspace they should be able to.
> > 
> > Great! Can I send patch after which 0xe00e will be send to input layer as
> > event KEY_BATTERY?
> > 
> 
> Well that's why I was mentioning this in two places.  If it's received from keyboard
> recoding it as KEY_BATTERY sounds appropriate to me.  If it's received from WMI,
> it really shouldn't be set as anything for Linux to do.
> 
> I don't think any apps will benefit from the notification to re-read battery
> Information today.

I mean for dell-wmi.c code.
Why it should not be set to anything on Linux?

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