Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:01:43 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device |
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On Thu 20-04-06 20:33:26, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Xavier Bestel wrote: > >There are keyboards with power/sleep buttons. It makes > >sense they have > >the same behavior than ACPI buttons. > Agree, make them behave like ACPI buttons -- remove them > from input stream, as they do not belong there...
So you propose to
a) break backwards compatibility
b) introduce not-yet-existing mechanism for delivering events to userspace
when you have perfectly working interface (input) you can just use? Not a good idea, I'd say. -- Thanks, Sharp! - 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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