Re: [patch] Reporting the lid status using INPUT

[Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 15:53 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 10:29 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On 6/15/07, Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 13:29 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > > in response to an event, but I'm thinking in a resume hook we should
> > > > probably do acpi_evaluate_integer(handle, "_LID", NULL, &state) and then
> > > > send an event, just so userspace is aware of what the state of the panel
> > > > is.
> > >
> > > Attached patch fixed the issue for me. Comments?
> > >
> > 
> > The patch makes perfect sense. The only issue I have is this:
> > 
> > > +	/* on resume we send the state; it might be the same, but userspace
> > > +	 * should handle duplicated events */
> > 
> > If switch state matches to what input layer thinks it is the event
> > will not even reach userspace.
> 
> Okay, new patch attached, thanks for the speedy review.

This fix is also confirmed by somebody else, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243030

It would be great if this could go into .22, although I appreciate it's
quite late in the day.

Richard.


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