Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:33:57 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | 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.
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