Re: [PATCH] drivers/input/misc: Added Acer TravelMate 240 support to the wistron button interface

Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> Sun, 11 Dec 2005 13:28:33 -0500

Newsgroups	org.kernel.vger.linux-laptop,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sunday 11 December 2005 00:48, Ashutosh Naik wrote:
> On 12/11/05, Miloslav Trmac <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > > This patch adds Acer TravelMate 240 support to the wistron button
> > > interface. This means that the buttons on top of the
> > > keyboard(including ones for Wifi and Bluetooth),  which hitherto did
> > > not work, work now. I have tested it on my laptop and it seems to work
> > > great.
> > Please check that the ACPI "button.ko" driver can't provide the
> > functionality; newer laptops apparently work better with that driver
> > (http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/12/2/61).
> 
> The Acer TravelMate 240 laptop supports ACPI, but the ACPI does not
> support hotkeys. Hence hotkeys just would not work without this
> module.
>

I added this to my input tree.

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Dmitry