[PATCH] add support for ACPI IBM hotkey events

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Thu Jan 18 19:35:50 PST 2007


On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 07:10:08PM +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:

> Since we already propagate these events for normal ACPI events via HAL (as we 
> report the related buttons as devices) and also provide such events for 
> Toshiba machines, I would see them also for IBM until this _all_ will go in 
> the future through the input layer.

I believe that this is queued for 2.6.21. There's no real point in 
adding it in order to just remove it again, especially if it encourages 
people to depend on these event names.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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