Re: [patch] Reporting the lid status using INPUT

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On 16/06/07, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 16 June 2007 13:11, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> This is of course Len's call but in my book this is a bugfix and as such
> is appropriate for -rc4/rc5.

Guys? Any ack-nak?

Richard.
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