On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Michał Kępień <ker...@kempniu.pl> wrote: >> > On some laptop models (e.g. Dell Vostro V131), pressing the Dell Instant >> > Launch hotkey does not raise an i8042 interrupt - only WMI event 0xe025 >> > is generated. As there seems to be no ACPI method or SMI call to >> > determine without possible side effects whether a given machine is >> > capable of simulating a keypress when this hotkey is pressed, DMI >> > matching is used to whitelist the models for which an input event should >> > be generated when WMI event 0xe025 is received. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: Michał Kępień <ker...@kempniu.pl> >> > --- >> > Changes from v1: >> > >> > - Use DMI matching instead of a module parameter >> > - Change flag name to improve readability >> > >> > Darren, I am aware this patch conflicts with Andy's WMI rework series >> > posted yesterday, so please just let me know if you want me to rebase. >> >> Thanks for the heads' up. Andy's series is longer and likely going to need >> more >> review from more people, so I don't necessarily want to hold this one up on >> it - >> unless it makes sense to include it in that series so they can evolve >> together. >> I'll leave that to you and Andy to decide. > > As merging my patch with Andy's work is just a matter of moving code > around, not actually changing it, personally I don't feel this patch > should be somehow linked to the WMI rework. Andy, please let me know if > you disagree, I don't really have any strong feelings about this. >'
I think it's just a matter of which lands first. It shouldn't be a big deal. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
