On 5/14/07, Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> wrote:
> This patch adds a soft release key mask to input_dev, to enable keyboard
> drivers to determine which keys never generate a hardware release event and
> hence add a release event after every press event of such keys. The mask is
> controlled by ioctls.
I don't think we want to add all the infrastructure for the benefit of single
driver. Can we add a quirk to atkbd and activate it based on DMI?
As the atkbd.c driver already had a work-around for exactly the same problem
with some (I think) Korean keyboards (KEY_HANGEUL and KEY_HANJA), adding
this infrastructure (well, one pointer and two ioctls) seemed a logical step.
If you prefer a hack just in atkbd.c and activate it on Dell laptops, I see
what I can do. The problem with that is that I don't know the scancodes of
all keys on all models (and future models) that exhibit this behaviour. I'll
implement what I know, though (it'll take some time because I'll be
travelling quite a lot very soon).
Greetings,
Giel
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