From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey_y_starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:08:48 +0400
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To: Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>
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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.
> 
> 				Have a nice fortnight
There is one special key anyway -- reset...