Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

Pavel Machek
2005-02-18T23:35:21Z

Hi!

> > Well, if you have power button on usb keyboard -- why should it be
> > handled differently from built-in button?
>
> I see no reason. But that tells you that one subsystem should handle
> that, not which subsystem.

If usb keyboard has power button... I do not think we really want to
route that through acpi. And what if acpi is not available? (APM knows
about suspend key in weird way, but not about power key).

> > trip points), and I do not see how you can do interrupts for fan
> > status. Either fans are under Linux control (and kernel could tell you
> > when it turns fan on/off, but...), or they do not exist from Linux's
> > point of few.
>
> They still can have a readable rate, even if not under os control.
> Nevertheless I don't think you can reasonably define what might
> interest user space or not and in which detail.

Well, we can say that userspace definitely is interested in "power"
key ;-).
Pavel
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