Re: Add support for Eject hotkey in dell-wmi

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Mon Apr 20 2009 - 14:29:07 EST


On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:25:57PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Hi Matthew:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 01:11:46PM -0500, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> >
> >
> > Looks good - can you confirm that it'll be removed from the normal
> > keyboard interface at the same time?
> >
> No it won't be removed at the same time on all machines during the
> transition period. I've however requested to add a BIOS option for the
> machines that support this to try to enable or disable WMI support in
> the interim.

Ok. How can we determine whether we're on a machine with this support?
Applying this patch right now will result in systems receiving the event
twice.

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