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

[Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey_y_starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>]

Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Le jeudi 20 avril 2006 à 15:30 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov a écrit :
> > On 4/20/06, Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey_y_starikovskiy@linux.intel.com> 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.
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