Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:32:23 +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 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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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