Re: [PATCH] eeepc-wmi: set the touchpad toggle key code to F21

[Chris Bagwell]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 07:52:11AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:19 AM, Keng-Yu Lin <keng-yu.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Signed-off-by: Keng-Yu Lin <keng-yu.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> >  drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-wmi.c |    2 +-
>> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31333
>> >
>> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-wmi.c
>> > index d399775..da00cbc 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-wmi.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-wmi.c
>> > @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ static const struct key_entry eeepc_wmi_keymap[] = {
>> >        { KE_KEY, 0x32, { KEY_MUTE } },
>> >        { KE_KEY, 0x5c, { KEY_F15 } }, /* Power Gear key */
>> >        { KE_KEY, 0x5d, { KEY_WLAN } },
>> > -       { KE_KEY, 0x6b, { KEY_F13 } }, /* Disable Touchpad */
>> > +       { KE_KEY, 0x6b, { KEY_F21 } }, /* Disable Touchpad */
>> >        { KE_KEY, 0x82, { KEY_CAMERA } },
>> >        { KE_KEY, 0x83, { KEY_CAMERA_ZOOMIN } },
>> >        { KE_KEY, 0x88, { KEY_WLAN } },
>>
>> Hum, I'm not very comfortable with this patch now that we got
>> KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE.
>> I know, it doesn't work with current Xorg, but if we continue to
>> workaround that, it'll never be fixed.
>>
>> Dmitry, Matthew, any advice ?
>
> I believe that the kernel should use KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE and userspace
> should use udev's key re-mapping facilities while X is unable to process
> keycodes above 255 to adjust to the keycode du jour. If all kernel
> drivers were to use KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE then remapping would be much
> easier (the utility would simply check capabilities for
> KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE and do the remap).

I submitted last month a patch to udev to do the scancode-to-F21
mapping.  So that part should be covered for near term.

I also agree if we are going to change kernel side, we should change
to KEY_TOUCHPAD_TOGGLE in both eeepc-laptop and eeepc-wmi.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/hotplug/udev.git;a=commit;h=0d8b6be5f5238360d2d8e220d6da280f842c5358

Chris
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