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

Matthew Garrett
2006-04-20T15:38:55Z

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:35:53PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:

> Could it be more sensible to use kevent and dbus for sending all events
> from ACPI?

For most of the events, probably. I'm less convinced by the button
driver - sleep and power buttons can also generate keycodes rather than
ACPI events, and so getting the button driver to behave like an input
device adds consistency.

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