Re: [gpm] Untangling the sleep hotkey mess

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Wed, 2006-08-30 at 23:07 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 August 2006 23:03, Len Brown wrote:
> > On Wednesday 30 August 2006 22:53, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > 
> > > 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?
> > 
> > If virtually everybody uses INPUT, then I'm fine with the ACPI button driver simply depending
> > on CONFIG_INPUT.
> > 
> > If nobody uses ACPI on a system without INPUT, then I don't see why we should
> > muck up the code to suport a case that nobody will test or use.
> > 
> 
> INPUT is not used on s390 but I suppose that's ok ;) You need to work
> really hard to disable input (embedded, no VTs or anything, etc).

Is there any feedback on this solution? Also, what's the timescale for
conversion to the input layer - are we talking blue sky or a few months?
I want to make sure userspace is in a position for this change.

Thanks for all your help,

Richard.