No acpi_dell(4)

[John Baldwin]

On Monday, February 23, 2015 03:22:57 PM Anthony Jenkins wrote:
> On 02/22/2015 01:08 PM, hiren panchasara wrote:
> > I've just got a lightweight dell e7240 which is pretty nice with very
> > good batterylife.
> > 
> > Only trouble is none of the buttons work.
> > 
> > Is there any hackery people do to make them work? Time permitting, I'd
> > like to see if we can get something together which looks like acpi_ibm.
> 
> Some machines throw acpi_wmi(4) events when those special buttons are
> pushed.  Load acpi_wmi(4) driver and cat /proc/wmistat0.  The WMI
> objects with hex numbers in the EVENT column *might* be for your keys.
> My HP Envy Sleekbook uses WMI for the radios key, but I haven't figured
> out how to get events for the LCD brightness control keys (although my
> brightness controls *do* work).  I used a Linux driver as a reference tho...
> 
> I'd like to make the acpi_wmi(4) interface easier to use, but my backlog
> of contributions I'm sitting on is only growing.

I've been waiting to see if you were going to post an update to rev 3 of your 
CMOS patch after Ian's last round of feedback FWIW.  Much of his feedback 
seemed relevant (and I know you've already accepted some other rounds of 
feedback on that patch before then, hence 'v3')

-- 
John Baldwin