Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:48:26 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built |
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag, 18. Februar 2005 18:00 schrieb Vojtech Pavlik: > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 05:01:53PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > > > > It has quite a lot of #ifdefs for CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ACPI, > > > > > and it will not work on i386/APM, anyway. I still believe right > > > > > solution is to add input interface to ACPI. /proc/acpi/events needs to > > > > > die, being replaced by input subsystem. > > > > > > > > But aren't there power events (battery low, etc) which are not > > > > input events? > > > > > > Yes, there are. They can probably stay... Or we can get "battery low" > > > key. > > > > We even have an event class for that, EV_PWR in the input subsystem. > > Over that route we'd arrive at a situation where power management > without the input layer is impossible.
All you'd need is input.c. One file, approx 750 lines at the moment, a big chunk of that can be confugured out if you don't need procfs or hotplug.
> Think about embedded stuff I wonder whether this is viable.
On most embedded platforms you have some buttons or controls, so it's likely you'll use input anyway.
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