[PATCH evdev 3/4] Add a property to toggle fnmode on Apple keyboards

[Peter Hutterer]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:38:36AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Mit, 2011-05-18 at 15:00 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: 
> > On Apple keyboards, the multimedia function keys are overlaid with the F
> > keys. F1 is also BrightnessDown, F10 is Mute, etc. The kernel provides a
> > tweak to enable/disable this.
> > 
> > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode
> >     0 .. keyboard sends Fx keys
> >     1 .. keyboard sends multimedia keys
> 
> Actually, Linux drivers/hid/hid-apple.c says:
> 
> MODULE_PARM_DESC(fnmode, "Mode of fn key on Apple keyboards (0 = disabled, "
>                 "[1] = fkeyslast, 2 = fkeysfirst)");
> 
> Please expose the full functionality. (As you may guess, I'm using 2, so
> the function keys produce Fx by default, but I can use the multimedia
> functions with the fn key)

I think it might be better to expose just 1 and 2 then as MM keys/Fx keys.
Not sure if there's a much-needed use-case for 0, is there?.

Cheers,
  Peter