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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:28:02PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:

> I don't quite understand your point... You want all buttons/switches in a
> computer to send events to input layer, regardless if this make sense or
> not, just to be consistent? May be you should go other way around and if
> keyboard has some strange key, send it on its strange way?

There's a reason that KEY_POWER and KEY_SLEEP are already present in
/usr/include/linux/input.h. It makes sense to expose keys that are on my
keyboard in the same way as other keys on my keyboard. Just think of the
ACPI events interface as a bus that a small keyboard with not many keys
sits on.

From the userspace point of view, it's *far* easier to deal with this
stuff if the keys generate keycodes.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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