Re: [gpm] Untangling the sleep hotkey mess

["Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry torokhov gmail com>]

On 9/18/06, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
> 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.

I sent the updated patch to Yu Luming, the copy is in the list archives:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-acpi&m=115751976924048&w=2

so unless there are objections to the thing I'd like to have it
applied to ACPI tree.

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Dmitry