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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device
Hello!

> 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?

Neither does a generic application need to know if the NumLock key is just
pressed. This doesn't mean anything.

I don't see any reason for treating some keys or buttons differently.
A key is just a key.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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