On 4/21/06, Yu, Luming <[email protected]> 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.
>
> If you define input layer as a universe place to all manual input
> activity,
Yes. If something is related to input it should be integrated into input layer.
> then I agree to port some type of ACPI event into
> input layer. But it shouldn't be a fake keyboard scancode,
> My suggestion is to have a separate input event type,e.g. EV_ACPI
> for acpi event layer.
>
The point is that it is not a fake scancode. There are keyboards that
have these keys that don't have anything to do with ACPI. That's why
they belong to input layer. The same goes for lid switch - we have
EV_SW that is used by some PDAs.
Note that I am not saying that other ACPI events, like battery status
or device insertion/removal, should be propagated through input layer.
But things that exist even without ACPI should not be ACPI-specific.
--
Dmitry
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