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

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> 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?

Neither does a generic application need to know if the NumLock key is just
pressed. This doesn't mean anything.

I don't see any reason for treating some keys or buttons differently.
A key is just a key.

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@xxxxxx>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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