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

Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-21T08:52:54Z

Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le jeudi 20 avril 2006 à 15:30 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov a écrit :
>> On 4/20/06, Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey_y_starikovskiy@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>> Xavier Bestel wrote:
>>>> There are keyboards with power/sleep buttons. It makes sense they have
>>>> the same behavior than ACPI buttons.
>>> Agree, make them behave like ACPI buttons -- remove them from input stream, as they do not belong there...
>> What if there is no ACPI? What if I want to remap the button to do
>> something else? Input layer is the proper place for them.
>
> Err .. that's what I meant, sorry I was not clear. Matthew's solution
> looks right.
If there is no ACPI, you don't have ACPI buttons to remap. Remapping power/lid/sleep button is not wise at least, just because you boot once with acpi=off and get unclean shutdown instead of your intended remapped keystroke.