Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Apr 2006 18:39:12 +0400 | From | Alexey Starikovskiy <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > On Po 24-04-06 10:54:23, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: >> Pavel Machek wrote: >>>>> I don't see any reason for treating some keys or buttons >>>>> differently. >>>>> A key is just a key. >>>> There is one special key anyway -- reset... >>> Your point is? There's also hardware power button on many machines. >>> They are not controllable by software => they are not relevant to this >>> discussion. >>> >> Really? And you are what are you going to do with bugs about "my power >> button doesn't remap, and always shuts down my machine?" > > If they have hardware power button, I'll laugh at them (then > CLOSE/INVALID). Feel free to reassign such bugs to me. > > Anyway stripping useful functinality because very old (386-era!) > machines don't support it is not a way to go. > Pavel Any new machine will have this same functionality if booted with acpi=off,ht etc, and this is done automatically on recent SUSE installs. - 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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