Re: 2.4.17: Dell Laptop extra buttons patch (fwd)

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Wed, 26 Dec 2001 17:40:57 -0200 (BRST)


On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> On Dec 26, 2001 17:11 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Could someone with Dell laptops test this for me ?
>
> I don't have a Dell laptop, but AFAIK in the past patches like this have
> been rejected by Andries Brouwer (I think) because it is possible to do
> this from user space with key mapping tools like setkeycodes, xkeycaps,
> or xmodmap.

Yes, right. Alan just told me the same.

Thanks

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