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Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant Launch hotkey processing

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On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:54:58PM +0100, Michał Kępień wrote:
> > The best would be if embedded controller could be configured to send
> > events via i8042 bus...
> 
> Yes, but if I correctly understand Mario's message back from July [1],
> V131's EC simply does not support generating scancodes at all.
> 
> > I'm starting to thing that blacklist or whitelist of machines is needed
> > to collect. And via it decide if WMI event will be accepted or dropped.
> 
> If you believe this is the way to go, I'm perfectly fine with that.

This is a common approach among platform drivers since we try to support
multiple products with a single driver.

Ideally, we could detect if this was necessary by the response of some ACPI call
or another, but failing that, DMI matching is our fallback.

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
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[PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant Launch hotkey processing Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2015-11-26 15:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant  Launch hotkey processing Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-11-26 15:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant  Launch hotkey processing Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2015-11-26 16:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant Launch hotkey processing Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-11-29 21:00 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant  Launch hotkey processing Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2015-11-30 15:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant  Launch hotkey processing Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-11-30 15:40 +0100
            Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant  Launch hotkey processing Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2015-11-30 16:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant  Launch hotkey processing Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2015-11-30 22:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant  Launch hotkey processing Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2015-11-30 22:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: add module param to control Dell Instant  Launch hotkey processing Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2015-12-01 09:50 +0100
    [PATCH v2] dell-wmi: process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Dell Vostro V131 Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2015-12-01 21:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] dell-wmi: process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Dell  Vostro V131 Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2015-12-04 02:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2] dell-wmi: process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Dell  Vostro V131 Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 10:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2] dell-wmi: process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Dell  Vostro V131 Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2015-12-04 14:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2] dell-wmi: process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Dell  Vostro V131 Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2015-12-04 14:00 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v2] dell-wmi: process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Dell  Vostro V131 Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-12-04 17:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v2] dell-wmi: process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Dell  Vostro V131 Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2015-12-04 09:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v2] dell-wmi: process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Dell  Vostro V131 Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2015-12-04 13:40 +0100

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