Add a simple version of the toshiba acpi addon

Sjoerd Simons sjoerd at luon.net
Wed Mar 1 10:58:22 PST 2006


On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 06:08:29PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Attached is a simple version of the patch to add the addon for toshiba
> keyboard support. It's designed to get the power keys working on my
> laptop.
> 
> When the acpi->input patches get sent to the kernel, and HAL has a hard
> dependency on this new kernel version, this addon can probably be
> removed. Seeing as this may be months or years away, I think adding the
> addon now is a good thing to do as it makes the Fn keys on Toshiba work.
> 
> The brightness keys, and sleep and hibernate keys work really well on my
> Satellite Pro A10 laptop.

Btw, is it expected that there will be more of these kind of addons ? In that
case it's probably good to #define the names in some shared header file,
prevents people from making typo's :)

  Sjoerd
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