[patch] poll the NVRAM area to pick up Thinkpad button presses

[Danny Kukawka]

On Dienstag, 15. Mai 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:
> * Be patched into the kernel and use INPUT (_if_ possible, and
> probably a long term thing)
> * Modified to use UINPUT so we can "inject" input keycodes to X, so we
> can map them in gnome-settings-daemon (and the equivalent KDE thing)

I maybe oversee something, but I think the patch is not needed. Simply install 
the hotkey-setup package (as far as I can see used currently by SUSE, Debian 
and Ubuntu) and you get all the events via the input layer. Tested with X41 
and X60.

Danny