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

[David Weinehall]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:33:26PM +0400, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:
> Xavier Bestel wrote:
> >There are keyboards with power/sleep buttons. It makes sense they have
> >the same behavior than ACPI buttons.
> Agree, make them behave like ACPI buttons -- remove them from input stream, 
> as they do not belong there...

It's far more sane to have them as normal keys; you might want to remap
them to do something else than to suspend your machine, for instance.


Regards: David
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