RE: [RFC] [PATCH] Make ACPI button driver an input device

[Yu, Luming]

>> > There are keyboards with power/sleep buttons. It makes 
>sense they have
>> > the same behavior than ACPI buttons.
>> Agree, make them behave like ACPI buttons -- remove them 
>from input stream, as they do not belong there...
>
>What if there is no ACPI? What if I want to remap the button to do
>something else? Input layer is the proper place for them.

If you define input layer as a universe place to all manual input 
activity, then I agree to port some type of ACPI event into
input layer.  But it shouldn't be a fake keyboard scancode,
My suggestion is to have a separate input event type,e.g. EV_ACPI
for acpi event layer.

>
>--
>Dmitry

Thanks,
Luming
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