Re: [gpm] Untangling the sleep hotkey mess
- From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 srcf ucam org>
- To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core ameritech net>
- Cc: linux-acpi vger kernel org, desktop_portables lists osdl org, hal lists freedesktop org, gnome-power-manager-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [gpm] Untangling the sleep hotkey mess
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 05:24:07 +0000
On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 12:07:43AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Why don't we create an input handler that would feed certain events
> from input layer to acpid via bus_acpi_generate_event().
I'm not convinced that making the input layer depend on ACPI (even
optionally) would go down terribly well. It also strikes me as *wrong* -
the sleep key on this keyboard has nothing to do with ACPI, whereas keys
presented through ACPI are still an input device.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 srcf ucam org
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