Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:08:48 +0400 | From | Alexey Starikovskiy <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device |
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Martin Mares wrote: > Hello! > >> Generic application does not need to know if power, sleep, or lid button is >> pressed, so you will need to intercept them from input stream... I cannot >> find any reason to mix these buttons into input, do you? > > Neither does a generic application need to know if the NumLock key is just > pressed. This doesn't mean anything. > > I don't see any reason for treating some keys or buttons differently. > A key is just a key. > > Have a nice fortnight There is one special key anyway -- reset... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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