Re: [gpm] Untangling the sleep hotkey mess

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor insightbb com>]

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 21:49, Brown, Len wrote:
> >> >> But input layer will be a hub of sorts and I am arguing for ACPI
> >> >> to be converted to use input layer directly.
> >> >
> >> >What does lkml think of ACPI using the input layer directly? 
> >> 
> >> I think it is a good idea.
> >> 
> >> The only question I have is how to transition.
> >> If I replace the acpi_bus_generate_event() calls for
> >> power/sleep/lid/hotkeys
> >> and replace them with input_report_key(), will there be something up
> >> there
> >> listening for these events when acpid does not get them?
> >> 
> >
> >Let's start with adding reporting through input layer while still
> >reporintg through /proc/acpi/event, this will allow gradual transition.
> >
> >What do you think about the patch below (should be applied on top of
> >cleanup patch which is attached)? I will need to adjust it to
> >!CONFIG_INPUT, but it can be done later if we agree on principle.
> 
> sorry for the delayed response -- looks like this one arrived at the
> tail end of the ottawa trip...
> 
> I agree with this patch in principle.
> it would be good to cut over to handing the power/sleep/lid buttons
> as input device sooner rather than later.  Hopefully we don't get
> all confused with double reporting of the events and can do one
> or the other in user-space.
> 
> I don't understand some parts of the diff, including why the LID
> event is always assumed to be an open event,

It is only assumed to be open if we failed to evaluate "_LID" property,
otherwise true lid state is reported. Since I expect some sleep scripts
to be associated with lid close event reporting it as open looks safe.
Or we could not report anything in case of failure, that's probably
the best solution.

> and some of the diff 
> seemed to be moving code around and I wasn't clear on why.

That was done to simplify error handling paths.

So... do you want me to make it work with !CONFIG_INPUT or shoudl I just
add a dependency on INPUT in Kconfig for button driver?

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Dmitry