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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:03:00 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey_y_starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
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On Thu 20-04-06 21:06:32, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:47:39PM +0400, Alexey 
> >Starikovskiy wrote:
> >
> >>Yes, this is why I mentioned using kevent and dbus 
> >>before... Could it be the righter answer?
> >
> >I think it makes sense for atkbd and usb hid power and 
> >sleep buttons to be treated like all other keys on those 
> >keyboard types. As a result, I think it makes sense for 
> >ACPI keys to behave in the same way. I wrote an addon 
> >for hal to take input events and put them on the system 
> >dbus some time ago, so that's already a solved problem.
> >
> So now you can do a shortcut and send ACPI events to dbus 
> without involving input layer and hal.

And break handheld devices and require everyone to run dbus?

							Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!