From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey_y_starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
"Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:07:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060420220731.GF2352@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4447C020.3010003@linux.intel.com>
On Thu 20-04-06 21:08:48, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Martin Mares wrote:
> >Hello!
> >
> >>Generic application does not need to know if power,
> >>sleep, or lid button is pressed, so you will need to
> >>intercept them from input stream... I cannot find any
> >>reason to mix these buttons into input, do you?
> >
> >Neither does a generic application need to know if the
> >NumLock key is just
> >pressed. This doesn't mean anything.
> >
> >I don't see any reason for treating some keys or buttons
> >differently.
> >A key is just a key.
> There is one special key anyway -- reset...
Your point is? There's also hardware power button on many machines.
They are not controllable by software => they are not relevant to this
discussion.
Pavel
--
Thanks, Sharp!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-22 19:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-20 5:45 [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device Yu, Luming
2006-04-20 5:45 ` Yu, Luming
2006-04-20 7:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 15:35 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 15:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 15:57 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 16:11 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-04-20 16:33 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 16:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 16:47 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 16:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 17:06 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 22:03 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-20 19:30 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-20 20:07 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-04-20 20:07 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-04-21 8:52 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-21 8:52 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 22:04 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-21 12:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-21 12:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-20 22:01 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-22 20:59 ` David Weinehall
2006-04-20 16:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 16:28 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 16:32 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 16:35 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 16:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 22:10 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-20 16:58 ` Martin Mares
2006-04-20 17:08 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 22:07 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-04-24 6:54 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-24 8:31 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-24 14:39 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-24 15:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-28 17:43 ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-04-28 17:43 ` Stefan Seyfried
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-25 14:17 Yu, Luming
2006-04-25 14:17 ` Yu, Luming
2006-04-21 7:27 Yu, Luming
2006-04-21 7:27 ` Yu, Luming
2006-04-20 21:55 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-24 14:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-21 11:37 ` Martin Mares
2006-04-21 12:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-19 19:53 Matthew Garrett
2006-04-19 20:04 ` Dominik Brodowski
2006-04-19 20:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-24 14:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-24 15:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-24 16:05 ` Richard Purdie
2006-04-24 16:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-24 17:05 ` Richard Purdie
2006-04-24 20:34 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-24 20:59 ` Richard Purdie
2006-04-24 21:29 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-24 20:20 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-20 21:56 ` Pavel Machek
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