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

Matthew Garrett wrote:

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:33:26PM +0400, 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...

Making the atkbd driver punt certain scancodes to the ACPI layer /really/ isn't the right answer.

Yes, this is why I mentioned using kevent and dbus before... Could it be the righter answer?
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