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

[Alexey Starikovskiy]

Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.
Could it be more sensible to use kevent and dbus for sending all events from ACPI?
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