ATKBD: adding force-release quirks

Ozan Çağlayan ozan at pardus.org.tr
Fri Nov 20 01:21:10 PST 2009


Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It appears that more and more laptops do not send release events for
> their multimedia keys requiring adding their DMI info to the atkbd
> driver. I don't think we can continue this practice any longer and I
> would like to punt this responsibility to HAL/DevKit/whatever. In 2.6.32
> there will be a new sysfs attribute, force_release, attached to the
> serio port that is bound to atkbd driver. Writing to that attribute will
> allow setting a new bitmap for the keys that require forced release,
> reading will produce current bitmap. The format as follows:
>
> echo 133-139,143,147 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/force_release
>
>   

Is there currently any work for this support in udev/dk?


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