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

[Alexey Starikovskiy]

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.
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