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authorLuming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>2005-03-18 18:03:45 -0500
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>2005-07-11 23:27:04 -0400
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treeaca6fd906629c6da124a73b43e6f6c50f81b90b4 /Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt
parentd58da590451cf6ae75379a2ebf96d3afb8d810d8 (diff)
[ACPI] generic Hot Key support
See Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt Use cmdline "acpi_specific_hotkey" to enable legacy platform specific drivers. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3887 Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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1driver/acpi/hotkey.c implement:
21. /proc/acpi/hotkey/event_config
3(event based hotkey or event config interface):
4a. add a event based hotkey(event) :
5echo "0:bus::action:method:num:num" > event_config
6
7b. delete a event based hotkey(event):
8echo "1:::::num:num" > event_config
9
10c. modify a event based hotkey(event):
11echo "2:bus::action:method:num:num" > event_config
12
132. /proc/acpi/hotkey/poll_config
14(polling based hotkey or event config interface):
15a.add a polling based hotkey(event) :
16echo "0:bus:method:action:method:num" > poll_config
17this adding command will create a proc file
18/proc/acpi/hotkey/method, which is used to get
19result of polling.
20
21b.delete a polling based hotkey(event):
22echo "1:::::num" > event_config
23
24c.modify a polling based hotkey(event):
25echo "2:bus:method:action:method:num" > poll_config
26
273./proc/acpi/hotkey/action
28(interface to call aml method associated with a
29specific hotkey(event))
30echo "event_num:event_type:event_argument" >
31 /proc/acpi/hotkey/action.
32The result of the execution of this aml method is
33attached to /proc/acpi/hotkey/poll_method, which is dnyamically
34created. Please use command "cat /proc/acpi/hotkey/polling_method"
35to retrieve it.