Re: [PATCH 32/33] input: add KEY_WIRELESS_CYCLE

[Corentin Chary <corentin chary gmail com>]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry torokhov gmail com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:51:59AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
>> <dmitry torokhov gmail com> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 09:12:52AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
>> >> <dmitry torokhov gmail com> wrote:
>> >> > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 08:45:16AM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote:
>> >> >> This keycode could be used in a lot of platform specific drivers.
>> >> >> For example, on Asus laptops, Fn+F2 allow to cycle trought wireless
>> >> >> drivers (bt/wl: off/off, on/off, off/on, on/on).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Currently, these key are mapped to KEY_WLAN, and KEY_BLUETOOTH/KEY_WIMAX
>> >> >> are rarely used.
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there any application support for such cycling? IOW does anyone cares
>> >> > to do such cycling?
>> >>
>> >> On Asus laptops (both asus and eeepc) the Fn+F2 key cycle
>> >> (bluetooth/wlan: on/on, on/off, off/on, off/off) on windows.
>> >> On Linux, it only produces a KEY_WLAN keycode.
>> >>
>> >
>> > I understand this. I guess the question is whether people working on
>> > system infrastructure (dbus, Networkmanager, etc) care about having such
>> > functionality on Linux? The reason I am asking is that we added all
>> > KEY_WIMAX and so on defines but I am not usre if anyone wants them.
>>
>> KEY_WIMAX may not be used a lot because there is not a lot of device
>> with such a key,
>> I think this is not the case for KEY_WIRELESS_CYCLE.
>>
>> The bad thing is that we will need to patch X11 (and Qt, for
>> kde/solid) to make it works.
>>
>> Maybe we should Cc dbus/network manager/solid/linux-wireless ?
>>
>
> That would be a good idea.

Here it is.

Dear system infrastructure people,
Do you think a KEY_WIRELESS_CYCLE key would have any application ?

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Corentin Chary
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