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

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu Apr 20 2006 - 03:38:44 EST


On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:45:27PM +0800, Yu, Luming wrote:

> Do you plan to port the whole acpi event interface into input layer?
> If so, keycode is NOT a right way.

Not really, though it would be one possibility. However, the input layer
doesn't really provide the flexibility needed for certain events. I'm
not sure what the right answer is for other events, but I'm pretty sure
the button driver maps onto the input layer sensibly.

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