Patch: add quirks for Asus EEE PC 900

[Danny Kukawka]

On Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Le mardi 03 février 2009 à 17:26 +0000, Matthew Garrett a écrit :
> > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 04:39:35PM +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> > > it adds the same quirk as Asus EEE PC 701 for Asus EEE PC 900 (it is
> > > the same hardware as 701, just bigger screen).
> >
> > For which kernel? This shouldn't be needed on anything shipped lately.
>
> Well, I'm not the one who added 701 initially, so I don't know.
>
> Anyway, I've just checked with kernel 2.6.27.7 on Eee PC 701 and quirks
> are no longer needed indeed.
>
> But I'm not sure what we should do :
> - change to quirks.none, but if some people upgrade hal-info and have an
> old kernel, suspend will no longer work
> - add a check on kernel version in fdi but it is going to be painful to
> handle.
>
> I've also noticed Danny fixed my patch from string to string_out so it
> means my patch was in reality not applying quirks for 701 for Mandriva
> distro (and we didn't got any complain from our users ;)
>
> So, I guess we can change the quirks to none now.

I wouldn't do this for now, since hal don't depend on a special (recent) 
kernel version. It would only cost trouble for ppl with older kernel versions 
than may 2.6.27.

I guess that these keymappings don't cause any trouble on newer kernel 
versions.

Danny