Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Nov 2015 12:55:42 -0800 | From | Darren Hart <> | Subject | 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.
-- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center
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