On Monday, May 19, 2014 08:43:02 PM Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

Hi Dudley,

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 08:39:34AM +0000, Dudley Du wrote:

quoted

Rely on EV_SW and SW_LID bits to identify a LID device, and hook
up our filter to listen for SW_LID events to enable/disable touchpad when
LID is open/closed.
TEST=test on Chomebooks.

This is a policy and it does not belong in the kernel. Please work with
Rafael to establish generic interface to put devices into low power mode
(like accelerating runtime PM idle timeout)

I'm not really sure what you mean here, care to be more specific?

and use it when userspace detects that lid is closed.

I guess we get an event then, don't we?

Rafael