Re: [PATCH 8/25] sony-laptop: sony_nc_notify rewritten and improved

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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.

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