Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] toshiba_acpi: Add blacklist for models withhotkey problems

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Jan 05 2012 - 14:34:38 EST


On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 01:32:28PM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:

> Also a side note of interest: The machines that suffer from this all
> also have a WMI interface with code to support hotkeys, and that code
> shouldn't suffer from this problem. Unfortunately these models are the
> only ones I've seen with this WMI interface, and the code to generate
> the hotkey events isn't executed if the OS reports itself as Vista or
> newer.

In that case, can you check for the presence of the WMI interface and
then refuse to bind? That's seem far simpler than adding an unknown
number of systems to the blacklist.

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