That patch looks promising. It probabally should be sent upstream for review. The maintainers for the sony-laptop driver can be found here:
M: Mattia Dongili <malat...@linux.it> L: platform-driver-...@vger.kernel.org -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/695919 Title: Sony F series "assist" and "vaio" buttons not recognized by sony- laptop -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs