Patch: add quirks for Asus EEE PC 900

[Jelle de Jong]

Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009, Frederic Crozat wrote:
>> Le mardi 03 f�vrier 2009 � 17:26 +0000, Matthew Garrett a �crit :
>>> 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

Could somebody learn me something and tell me what programs read these
eeepc fdi files? how are they used on a non X based system. How does
udev use the rules, are they used in the /proc/sys/ system?

Are there some links to documentation where I can find this info or
track the use of a fdi file?

Thanks in advance,

Jelle