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

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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
-- 
Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins.
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