Hi Stephen,
On Sunday 16 September 2007 15:55, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:30:58 -0400
> Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Stephen,
> >
> > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 07:38, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > This driver supports the application buttons on some Fujitsu Lifebook laptops.
> > > It is based on the earlier apanel driver done by Jochen Eisenger, but
> > > with many changes. The original driver used ioctl's and a separate
> > > user space program; see http://apanel.sourceforge.net/tech.php
> > > This version hooks into the input subsystem so that the normal
> > > Gnome/KDE shortcuts work without any userspace changes.
> > >
> > > The Mail Led is handled via leds class device.
> > >
> >
> > Thank you very much for convering the led to led subsystem. I tried
> > implementing loadable keymap support in the driver, could you please
> > try the patch below and if it still works for you then I will apply
> > it to my tree.
> >
>
> Sorry, you are raising the bar for new drivers, higher than existing code.
> It is really bad (second system syndrome), if maintainers keep wanting
> new code to to more than existing drivers.
>
> Please take driver AS IS. Go ahead and add loadable key map support,
I think I did that. I just asked you to run another test to make sure I did
not screw up. Please find the time to do that and the patch will be applied.
Unfortunately I do not own the hardware in question to do such test myself.
> but fix all the other drivers in the tree at the same time that use the existing
> interface.
>
I will, time permitting. The support for doing loadable keymaps for drivers
with sparse scancodes (or their equivalent) was added not so long ago,
that's why there are a few drivers that don't implement loadable keymaps.
But still many others do.
--
Dmitry
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