From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey_y_starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:32:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060420163222.GA30197@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4447B692.3000704@linux.intel.com>
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:28:02PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> I don't quite understand your point... You want all buttons/switches in a
> computer to send events to input layer, regardless if this make sense or
> not, just to be consistent? May be you should go other way around and if
> keyboard has some strange key, send it on its strange way?
There's a reason that KEY_POWER and KEY_SLEEP are already present in
/usr/include/linux/input.h. It makes sense to expose keys that are on my
keyboard in the same way as other keys on my keyboard. Just think of the
ACPI events interface as a bus that a small keyboard with not many keys
sits on.
>From the userspace point of view, it's *far* easier to deal with this
stuff if the keys generate keycodes.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-20 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-20 5:45 [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device Yu, Luming
2006-04-20 7:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 15:35 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 15:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 15:57 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 16:11 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-04-20 16:33 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 16:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 16:47 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 16:55 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 17:06 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 22:03 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-20 19:30 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-20 20:07 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-04-21 8:52 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 22:04 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-21 12:56 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-20 22:01 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-22 20:59 ` David Weinehall
2006-04-20 16:15 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 16:28 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 16:32 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2006-04-20 16:35 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 16:45 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20 22:10 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-20 16:58 ` Martin Mares
2006-04-20 17:08 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20 22:07 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-24 6:54 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-24 8:31 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-24 14:39 ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-24 15:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-28 17:43 ` Stefan Seyfried
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-25 14:17 Yu, Luming
2006-04-21 7:27 Yu, Luming
2006-04-20 21:55 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-24 14:51 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-21 11:37 ` Martin Mares
2006-04-21 12:21 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-19 19:53 Matthew Garrett
2006-04-19 20:04 ` Dominik Brodowski
2006-04-19 20:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-24 14:45 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-24 15:10 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-04-24 16:05 ` Richard Purdie
2006-04-24 16:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-04-24 17:05 ` Richard Purdie
2006-04-24 20:34 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-24 20:59 ` Richard Purdie
2006-04-24 21:29 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-24 20:20 ` Pavel Machek
2006-04-20 21:56 ` Pavel Machek
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