From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:01:43 +0000 Message-ID: <20060420220142.GC2352@ucw.cz> References: <554C5F4C5BA7384EB2B412FD46A3BAD1332980@pdsmsx411.ccr.corp.intel.com> <20060420073713.GA25735@srcf.ucam.org> <4447AA59.8010300@linux.intel.com> <20060420153848.GA29726@srcf.ucam.org> <4447AF4D.7030507@linux.intel.com> <1145549460.23837.156.camel@capoeira> <4447B7D6.4030401@linux.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:58124 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751001AbWDVTTh (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:19:37 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4447B7D6.4030401@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alexey Starikovskiy Cc: Xavier Bestel , Matthew Garrett , "Yu, Luming" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu 20-04-06 20:33:26, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Xavier Bestel wrote: > >There are keyboards with power/sleep buttons. It makes > >sense they have > >the same behavior than ACPI buttons. > Agree, make them behave like ACPI buttons -- remove them > from input stream, as they do not belong there... So you propose to a) break backwards compatibility b) introduce not-yet-existing mechanism for delivering events to userspace when you have perfectly working interface (input) you can just use? Not a good idea, I'd say. -- Thanks, Sharp!