Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built

From: Xavier Bestel
Date: Fri Feb 18 2005 - 20:17:59 EST


Le samedi 19 février 2005 à 00:51 +0100, Oliver Neukum a écrit :

> > Well, we can say that userspace definitely is interested in "power"
> > key ;-).
>
> I wouldn't call that selfevident. The system might be eg. a ticket
> vending system and we care only about wake ups from touchscreen,
> trackball and modem and about volume control keys. I don't think
> you can make up any rules about what user space is interested or not.

If noone can tell in advance who will be interested and what to do with
it, that looks like a very good reason to go through userspace ..

Xav


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