Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-21 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Benjamin, On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 11:35:08AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 23:42 +, Jochen Voss wrote: > > Why would this be a good idea? > > [some good reasons] I don't feel strongly about this, so feel free to push whatever approach makes sense to you.

Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 23:42 +, Jochen Voss wrote: > Hello Benjamin, > > On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:23:53AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On the other hand, "Fn" is handled in hardware for ADB keyboards and by > > the kernel (simulating hardware) afaik, in OS X, and I suspect it migh

Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-20 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Benjamin, On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 10:23:53AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On the other hand, "Fn" is handled in hardware for ADB keyboards and by > the kernel (simulating hardware) afaik, in OS X, and I suspect it might > be a good idea to do the same, that is, have a translation m

Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> PS.: To answer the question you did not ask: the thing which is > "working" is (according to rumours, see the list archives), that with > an unpatched kernel and some super-secret (not yet in CVS?) versions > of Xorg you seemingly can get keyboard events from the fn-key under > X11. Afaik, curr

Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt told: > > > > > > > On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 14:51 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > > > please find attached fn-ky patch which works with 2.6.15-rc2. > > > > > >

Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-20 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello, On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 08:34:11AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Can you be more precise ? What is not "working" with the existing code ? I did not try 2.6.15, but with earlier kernels pressing "fn" was noticed neither by xev under X11 nor by showkeys on the console. Therefore yo

Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 the mental interface of Elimar Riesebieter told: [...] > Hmm, does the fn-key work with the vanilla one, which I didn't test? No, it doesn't. Elimar -- The path to source is always uphill! -unknown- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > please find attached fn-ky patch which works with 2.6.15-rc2. > > > > > > What is the point of this patch ? > > > > This patch is needed to get the fn-key working on powerb

Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 22:30 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 the mental interface of > Benjamin Herrenschmidt told: > > > On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 14:51 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > please find attach

Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 the mental interface of Benjamin Herrenschmidt told: > On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 14:51 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > please find attached fn-ky patch which works with 2.6.15-rc2. > > What is the point of this patch ? This patch

Re: 2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-20 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 14:51 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > Hi all, > > please find attached fn-ky patch which works with 2.6.15-rc2. What is the point of this patch ? Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2.6.15-rc2

2005-11-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, please find attached fn-ky patch which works with 2.6.15-rc2. Ciao Elimar -- The path to source is always uphill! -unknown- diff -Naur a/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c b/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c --- a/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c 2005-10-29 12