From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de>
Cc: vojtech@suse.cz, dtor_core@ameritech.net, luming.yu@intel.com,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
len.brown@intel.com, bero@arklinux.org
Subject: Re: [git pull 02/14] Add Wistron driver
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 03:33:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051212033347.10b194dd.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051212112205.GA23881@suse.de>
Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:38:44AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote:
> > > No. The ACPI Mafia^H^H^Hintainers :-) no longer accept any hotkey drivers
> > > and IIUC it will be reimplemented in a generic driver. This driver
> > > then should pipe the hotkey events to the input subsystem.
> >
> > hm. It seems a fairly bad idea to remove functionality before that
> > functionality has been implemented by the other means and has been rolled
> > out by distros for some time.
>
> pcc_acpi never was in the acpi tree or in mainline AFAIK.
It was in my tree in March 2005. I guess it's one of those things that
never got merged further.
> But it is nevertheless an example that it is not too hard to route hotkey
> events through the input subsystem :-)
Well whatever - it's an area in which we sorely need more functionality.
How long have we been waiting for the "proper" implementations?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-12 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-06 8:11 Yu, Luming
2005-12-06 15:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-12-11 13:10 ` Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
2005-12-11 22:40 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-12-12 8:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-12 9:14 ` Stefan Seyfried
2005-12-12 9:38 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-12 11:22 ` Stefan Seyfried
2005-12-12 11:33 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2005-12-06 8:57 Yu, Luming
2005-12-07 14:43 ` Miloslav Trmac
2005-12-06 8:38 Yu, Luming
2005-12-06 7:35 Yu, Luming
2005-12-06 8:15 ` Miloslav Trmac
2005-12-06 8:30 ` Miloslav Trmac
2005-11-20 6:36 [git pull 00/14] Input updates for 2.6.15 Dmitry Torokhov
2005-11-20 6:36 ` [git pull 02/14] Add Wistron driver Dmitry Torokhov
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