Hi! > >> > 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. There's nothing fake about it. Power button is just that - a button. Having EV_ACPI might make sense for thermal/battery events, but not for normal keys. -- Thanks, Sharp! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html