Re: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes

From	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes
Date	2016-06-22 16:30 +0200
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On Wednesday 22 June 2016 14:21:25 Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com wrote:
> > > For Linux I don’t think this is necessary and a NOOP is appropriate.
> > >
> > > There is also a second place that some older laptops had a battery "hotkey"
> > > that would also emit 0xE00E.  This was also picked up by quickset and would
> > > show battery information.
> > >
> > > This shouldn't be blocked by kernel, I'd expect if someone wants to bind
> > this
> > > to another application from userspace they should be able to.
> > 
> > Great! Can I send patch after which 0xe00e will be send to input layer as
> > event KEY_BATTERY?
> > 
> 
> Well that's why I was mentioning this in two places.  If it's received from keyboard
> recoding it as KEY_BATTERY sounds appropriate to me.  If it's received from WMI,
> it really shouldn't be set as anything for Linux to do.
> 
> I don't think any apps will benefit from the notification to re-read battery
> Information today.

I mean for dell-wmi.c code.
Why it should not be set to anything on Linux?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

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Re: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-15 22:00 +0200
  RE: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com> - 2016-06-21 22:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-22 10:00 +0200
      RE: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com> - 2016-06-22 15:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-22 16:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-22 16:30 +0200
            RE: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com> - 2016-06-22 16:30 +0200
              RE: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com> - 2016-06-22 16:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-22 17:00 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-22 16:40 +0200
          RE: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com> - 2016-06-22 16:30 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com> - 2016-06-22 16:40 +0200
              RE: [PATCH 3/4] dell-wmi: Add information about other WMI event codes <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com> - 2016-06-22 16:50 +0200

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