Usefulness of 30-keymap-module-asus-laptop.fdi ?

[Danny Kukawka]

On Mittwoch, 4. Februar 2009, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> while checking patches in our hal-info package, I found a patch where we
> disable fdi in 30-keymap-module-asus-laptop (because of Mandriva bug
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=39669 ).
>
> After discussing with our kernel hacker, it appears this file has been
> merged in hal-info git repository in september 2007 but it needed some
> kernel patches (in
> http://git.nicolast.be/?p=acpi4asus.git;a=shortlog;h=acpi_keys_to_input_lay
>er_no_internal_mapping ) which were never merged upstream.
>
> Fortunately, future upstream kernel (probably 2.6.30) will handle
> multimedia keys correctly (see
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6.git;a=commit;
>h=034ce90a8d1051deaeb31bae7f26ff1440a5b988 , we had a similar patch in
> Mandriva kernel for quite some time).
>
> So, I'd suggest we drop this fdi, since it is not useful for anybody and
> might cause issues when kernel patch land upstream.

Okay, I dropped the file from git. Thanks,

Danny