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