Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device

Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-24T14:39:29Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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
Any new machine will have this same functionality if booted with acpi=off,ht etc, and this is done automatically on recent SUSE installs.