Re: [PATCH] Map volume and brightness events on thinkpads

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:14:32PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > IOW, I think the thinkpad issue (and others like it) should be fixed by 
> > splitting up the KEY_VOLUMEUP "key" into separate KEY_VOLUMEUP and 
> > KEY_VOLUMEUP_NOTIFY key events, so that downstream user mode (and the 
> > kernel itself, for that matter) can know whether it's a informational 
> > message or whether it should be acted upon.
> 
> In principle I agree, but userspace already handles it. While it's 
> certainly more correct, I'm not sure it provides any other real 
> advantage.

Let's put it in another way:

I'd go with Linus suggestion, as it is not icky (although it is a lot more
limited in scope than adding a flag to EV_* that could be use for any event,
etc).

I am not going with the current icky hackery that makes every consumer of
EV_* need to know when they are real events, or "notification" events using
outside information.  It is not "userspace already handles it", even.  it is
"HAL already handles it", BTW.

And unless Dmitry agrees with Linus' suggestion (maybe as a temporary
stopgap while something better gets written?), we are not going anywhere,
anyway.  

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  Henrique Holschuh