Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:15:46 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device |
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:57:01PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> I think you will agree that ACPI buttons are special and will need special > handling even in input stream... > Generic application does not need to know if power, sleep, or lid button is > pressed, so you will need to intercept them from input stream... I cannot > find any reason to mix these buttons into input, do you?
On many machines, they're /already/ in the input stream. Applications that misbehave if they receive unknown keycodes are broken and need fixing in any case.
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