Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:28:02PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
I don't quite understand your point... You want all buttons/switches in a
computer to send events to input layer, regardless if this make sense or
not, just to be consistent? May be you should go other way around and if
keyboard has some strange key, send it on its strange way?
There's a reason that KEY_POWER and KEY_SLEEP are already present in
/usr/include/linux/input.h. It makes sense to expose keys that are on my
keyboard in the same way as other keys on my keyboard. Just think of the
ACPI events interface as a bus that a small keyboard with not many keys
sits on.
From the userspace point of view, it's *far* easier to deal with this
stuff if the keys generate keycodes.
Lid is a _switch_ with state, how many keys on keyboard have same behavior? Do you want to introduce special case just for that?
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