ATKBD: adding force-release quirks

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 11:21:10AM +0200, Ozan Çağlayan wrote:
> 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?

Johannes Stezenbach <js at sig21.net> started on adding this fucntionality
to udev.

-- 
Dmitry