Re: Patch to fix Volume keys on AMILO 1848+u (Kernel 2.6.32-rc5)
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Date: 2009-10-26 16:31:16
From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Date: 2009-10-26 16:31:16
Hi Pascal, On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:35:04AM +0100, Pascal Bach wrote:
The Fn+F7 and Fn+F8 Keys to change the Volume don't work as the don't send a key release event. The patch I appended adds the Amilo 1848+u to the special handling list of the atkbd.c driver.
Thank you for the patch, however since atkbd now allows controlling the force release bitmap from userspace (via sysfs) I have stopped accepting kernel quirks and instead ask people to rely on HAL/DeviceKit or some other userspace solution. Thanks. -- Dmitry