On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 04:22:53PM +0200, Marco Chiappero wrote: > Il 04/06/2011 14:42, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >>one thing I'm wondering is if we shouldn't stop sending input > >>events also via the acpi bus rather than adding new notification > >>methods. The /proc/acpi/event notification will go away on its own one > >>day so maybe letting this habit die with it is a reasonable deprecation > >>plan for /proc/acpi/event users. > > > >Yeah, it's about time for this to die. > > Sorry, I don't understand what should be changed and the desired behavior: > 1) no acpi notification at all, neither proc nor netlink (but we > need some new entries in input.h first). > 2) no acpi notification for hotkeys events only. > 3) no acpi notification to the deprecated /proc/acpi/event only No acpi notification at all. There's no good way for userspace to make use of them without knowing the hardware they're running on, which is far from ideal. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
