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

[Danny Kukawka]

On Mittwoch, 16. Mai 2007, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The point is that it doesn't require the installation of an extra
> package, and that it can use HAL's matching, and system to make sure the
> keys are working.

But we don't need code duplication. We don't need to implement everything in 
HAL if there are already a _well_ working solutions which are used by several 
major distributions. And adding this to HAL would lead to conflicts, because 
this package already handle several machines, not only IBM/Lenovo.

> In any case, the real goal is to get the keys handled directly in the
> kernel. See:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.ibm-acpi.devel/395

An other good reason not to implement this in HAL. If this work you only need 
to uninstall/drop the hotkey-setup package and it would work without a HAL 
update.

Danny