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

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On 4/21/06, Alexey Starikovskiy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Xavier Bestel wrote:
> > Le jeudi 20 avril 2006 à 15:30 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov a écrit :
> >> On 4/20/06, Alexey Starikovskiy <[email protected]> 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...
> >> What if there is no ACPI? What if I want to remap the button to do
> >> something else? Input layer is the proper place for them.
> >
> > Err .. that's what I meant, sorry I was not clear. Matthew's solution
> > looks right.
> If there is no ACPI, you don't have ACPI buttons to remap. Remapping power/lid/sleep button is not wise at least, just because you boot once with acpi=off and get unclean shutdown instead of your intended remapped keystroke.
>

I can see that with power button but lid/sleep should be fine really.
And even with power button - "doctor it hurts..."

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Dmitry
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