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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>,
	"LKML" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Stelian Pop" <stelian@popies.net>,
	"Mattia Dongili" <malattia@linux.it>,
	"Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sonypi: convert to the new platform device interface
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:56:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200512140056.37021.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3ACA40606221794F80A5670F0AF15F840A6A9A2D@pdsmsx403>

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 00:46, Yu, Luming wrote:
> Maybe this is out of topic for this patch.
> But, from my understanding, sonypi.c should be cleanly implemented in ACPI.
>

Probably. However:

1. ACPI hotkey support is not complete AFAIK.
2. ACPI hotkey does not utilize input layer.
3. Sonypi allows using special keys if one does not want to use ACPI for one
   reason or another.

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-14  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-14  5:46 [PATCH] Sonypi: convert to the new platform device interface Yu, Luming
2005-12-14  5:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2005-12-14  5:57 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-14  9:07   ` Stelian Pop
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-14  5:41 Dmitry Torokhov
2005-12-14  6:08 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-14  6:58   ` Dmitry Torokhov

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