On Sat, 06 Jun 2009, Hanno Böck wrote: > As the doc states, the thinkpad acpi module does not export hotkey > events through the netlink interface.
Correct. hotkeys go over the input device, where they belong. > What's the intention of this? As the procfs interface is marked as > deprecated in the kernel (and will most probably go away in the > future), shouldn't this be changed so the hotkey events can also be > caught through netlink? No. Hotkeys go over the input device, non-hotkey events go over netlink. That's how things should be. That way, every hotkey in every laptop works exactly the same. People are already working on proper userspace hotkey daemons that accept input events. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
