Messages in this thread | | | From | Pali Rohár <> | Subject | Re: Side effect of pressing special keys | Date | Wed, 3 Dec 2014 13:46:13 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 03 December 2014 13:40:42 Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sun 2014-11-23 14:41:17, Pali Rohár wrote: > > Hello, > > > > pressing some keys on laptops could cause some side effects. > > > > Example scenario 1: > > > > Laptop has Fn key for enabling/disabling WIFI and when that > > key is pressed BIOS is doing two things: > > > > 1) Switch hard rfkill state of WIFI > > 2) Report that Fn key was pressed to kernel > > > > (either via i8042 bus or via ACPI/WMI) > > We should not really report that as a "key" to userspace. We > might want to report that rfkill state changed.... > Pavel
Ok, and what about KEY_KBDILLUMTOGGLE when bios also handle keyboard backlight level? Should be this key filtered too?
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