On Sun, 24 Jan 2010, Florian Zumbiehl wrote:
> > > Now, all the ACPI keys/Fn-combinations do work just fine, except for
> > > the "ThinkPad" key, which doesn't generate any events observable with
> > > acpi_listen after boot. Only after I have done one suspend cycle,
> > > the key starts working.
> > 
> > Well, send me the output of
> > 
> > grep . /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey*
> > 
> > (and don't worry if it causes the kernel to complain loudly about access to
> > deprecated attributes).
> 
> | /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_all_mask:0x0088080c
> | /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_bios_enabled:0
> | /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_bios_mask:0x0000080c
> | /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_enable:1
> | /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_mask:0x0088080c
> | /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_poll_freq:10
> | /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_recommended_mask:0x0088080c
> | /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_report_mode:1
> | /sys/bus/platform/devices/thinkpad_acpi/hotkey_source_mask:0x00880000
> 
> > What happens when you unload and re-load thinkpad-acpi (rmmod and modprobe)?
> > Does the key stop working?
> 
> I could have thought of that - yeah, breaks it again, suspending makes it
> work again.

Therefore, it is something I can fix.  Please open a bug on
bugzila.kernel.org so that I don't lose track of this.  Maybe I can even
reproduce it on my T43 if I force the above masks, which would speed up the
fix a great deal :-)

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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