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: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 10:31:02 +0200 Message-ID: <20060424083102.GE26345@elf.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> <4447C020.3010003@linux.intel.com> <20060420220731.GF2352@ucw.cz> <444C761F.6010603@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]:18410 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750763AbWDXIbi (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:31:38 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <444C761F.6010603@linux.intel.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alexey Starikovskiy Cc: Martin Mares , Matthew Garrett , "Yu, Luming" , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Po 24-04-06 10:54:23, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > >>>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. > > > Really? And you are what are you going to do with bugs about "my power > button doesn't remap, and always shuts down my machine?" If they have hardware power button, I'll laugh at them (then CLOSE/INVALID). Feel free to reassign such bugs to me. Anyway stripping useful functinality because very old (386-era!) machines don't support it is not a way to go. Pavel -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.