On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:04:41 -0500 (EST)
"Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >> Things like "display switch" hotkeys are not unique to Thinkpads.
> >
> > That one, sure, but all of them?  Other buttons?
> 
> FYI, the PSWITCH_HK_* constants are suggestions, much in the same way
> that MI audio uses AudioC*/AudioN* for mixer control names. The
> hotkey device driver is free to create custom events as it sees fit.
> 
> The reason for PSWITCH_HK_* should be obvious -- to prevent cases
> where a sony(4) driver delivers a "display_cycle" event, asus(4)
> delivers "displayswitch", vald(4) delivers "DisplayToggle", and
> thinkpad(4) delivers "display-cycle".
> 
Right.  We certainly want standard names for the common items.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb