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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:39:12 +0400
From: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey_y_starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Po 24-04-06 10:54:23, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
>> Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>>> I don't see any reason for treating some keys or buttons 
>>>>> differently.
>>>>> A key is just a key.
>>>> There is one special key anyway -- reset...
>>> Your point is? There's also hardware power button on many machines.
>>> They are not controllable by software => they are not relevant to this
>>> discussion.
>>>
>> Really? And you are what are you going to do with bugs about "my power 
>> button doesn't remap, and always shuts down my machine?"
> 
> If they have hardware power button, I'll laugh at them (then
> CLOSE/INVALID). Feel free to reassign such bugs to me.
> 
> Anyway stripping useful functinality because very old (386-era!)
> machines don't support it is not a way to go.
> 								Pavel
Any new machine will have this same functionality if booted with acpi=off,ht etc, and this is done automatically on recent SUSE installs.