Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

2007-07-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:19:11PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > Anyway, if the input layer is really not the place for "passive key > presses", then my decision to not issue input events for such stuff is the > correct one. That wasn't my interpretation of what Dmitry said - it's n

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

2007-07-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:46:26AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > How do you know that this is a "passive keypress"? Can you put another > > (better) soundcard in a docking station? Woudl the firmware still > > control that card (doubtful)? Do we wan

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

2007-07-16 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:46:26AM -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > How do you know that this is a "passive keypress"? Can you put another > (better) soundcard in a docking station? Woudl the firmware still > control that card (doubtful)? Do we want the same keys to control that > card's volume? T

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

2007-07-16 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 7/15/07, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:59:34PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > *HAL* does. HAL is *not* all there is to userspace. The input layer is not > > an interface between t

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

2007-07-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 06:54:53PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > Hal is the only piece of userspace that knows how to speak to more than > > > one type of backlight in any useful way, wh

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

2007-07-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 06:54:53PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Hal is the only piece of userspace that knows how to speak to more than > > one type of backlight in any useful way, which makes it the de-facto > > reference for how use

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

2007-07-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:59:34PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > *HAL* does. HAL is *not* all there is to userspace. The input layer is not > > an interface between the kernel and HAL, it is an interface between kernel > > and userspac

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

2007-07-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:59:34PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > *HAL* does. HAL is *not* all there is to userspace. The input layer is not > an interface between the kernel and HAL, it is an interface between kernel > and userspace. Hal is the only piece of userspace that knows h

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

2007-07-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:03:38PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > I do not consider screwing up the mixer handling a harmless result. > > We've shipped in this configuration for over a year. Total number of > bugs filed? None. It's not

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

2007-07-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:03:38PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I do not consider screwing up the mixer handling a harmless result. We've shipped in this configuration for over a year. Total number of bugs filed? None. It's not ideal, but it's simply not true that it results in a

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add input device support to hotkey subdriver

2007-07-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 15 Jul 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > No. This is handled in firmware in IBM thinkpads, and userspace only screws > > it up. I am tired of watching people get this routed to the AC97 mixer by > > default. That is a fringe configuration that only makes sense when using a > > dock, and w