On Wednesday 22 June 2016 14:21:25 mario_limoncie...@dell.com wrote: > > > For Linux I don’t think this is necessary and a NOOP is appropriate. > > > > > > There is also a second place that some older laptops had a battery > > > "hotkey" > > > that would also emit 0xE00E. This was also picked up by quickset and > > > would > > > show battery information. > > > > > > This shouldn't be blocked by kernel, I'd expect if someone wants to bind > > this > > > to another application from userspace they should be able to. > > > > Great! Can I send patch after which 0xe00e will be send to input layer as > > event KEY_BATTERY? > > > > Well that's why I was mentioning this in two places. If it's received from > keyboard > recoding it as KEY_BATTERY sounds appropriate to me. If it's received from > WMI, > it really shouldn't be set as anything for Linux to do. > > I don't think any apps will benefit from the notification to re-read battery > Information today.
I mean for dell-wmi.c code. Why it should not be set to anything on Linux? -- Pali Rohár pali.ro...@gmail.com
