Re: [git pull 02/14] Add Wistron driver

[Andrew Morton]

Stefan Seyfried <seife@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In article <20051211224059.GA28388@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 01:10:13PM +0000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> >> I think routing them to the input layer makes most sense because they are keys 
> >> like everything else -- of course hacking acpid to pass on ACPI key events to 
> >> Xorg via the XTest extension is not exactly hard, but that would break the 
> >> keys in text mode (who knows, maybe someone wants to map his mail key to 
> >> "mutt[RETURN]"?), and of course launching an application from acpid is a bit 
> >> hard (acpid runs as root --> need to figure out which user is pressed the 
> >> button, switch user IDs, find the correct X display if any, .....) if it's an 
> >> input event, solutions for the expected functionality already exist - e.g. 
> >> khotkeys.
> > 
> > You also can hack acpid to use uinput to feed the events back to the
> > input subsystem, but I agree with you that going there directly is
> > probably the best way to go.
> 
> pcc_acpi already does this successfully and is a pleasure to use.

That's not in the tree any more.   Did something replace it?
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