Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH, new ACPI driver] new sony_acpi driver

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > Related to that, I have a nastyish hack which lets the sonypi driver
> > > generate ACPI events whenever a hotkey is pressed. Despite not strictly
> > > being ACPI events, this makes it much easier to integrate sonypi stuff
> > > with general ACPI support. I'll send it if you're interested.
> > 
> > Wouldn't be more useful to make the ACPI hotkeys generate an
> > input event (like sonypi does) and integrate all this at the input
> > level ?
>  
> Yes, I'd like to see that. The other possible way is have the input
> layer generate ACPI events for power-related keys.

No; ACPI events are ugly hack. They should die, die, die....

We should probably switch even stuff like acpi power button to input
layer, etc.

								Pavel
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