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

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 07:57:01PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:

> I think you will agree that ACPI buttons are special and will need special 
> handling even in input stream...
> Generic application does not need to know if power, sleep, or lid button is 
> pressed, so you will need to intercept them from input stream... I cannot 
> find any reason to mix these buttons into input, do you?

On many machines, they're /already/ in the input stream. Applications 
that misbehave if they receive unknown keycodes are broken and need 
fixing in any case.

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