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

Alexey Starikovskiy
2006-04-20T16:47:52Z

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:33:26PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy 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...
>
> Making the atkbd driver punt certain scancodes to the ACPI layer
> /really/ isn't the right answer.
>
Yes, this is why I mentioned using kevent and dbus before... Could it be the righter answer?