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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:33:57 -0400
From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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To: "Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: Telling the kernel that keys need soft release?
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On 4/25/06, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> Dell laptops have hotkeys on the top of the keyboard for "hibernate",
> "cd eject", "battery status" and so on. These can be mapped to
> appropriate keycodes, and life is good except for the fact that they
> never produce a key release event. The kernel appears to have code to
> deal with this for the hangul key, but it's hardcoded rather than
> generic.
>
> Is there any way for userspace to tell the event layer that a certain
> keycode should have soft-release? If not, would a patch for this be
> accepted?
>

Yes, with a proper DMI entry to activate it would be very welcome.

--
Dmitry