On Mon, 2016-07-11 at 03:20 +0000, Zheng, Lv wrote: > <snip> > > This worries me as there is no plan after "During the period the > > userspace hasn't been switched to use the new event". > > > > I really hope you'll keep sending SW_LID for reliable LID > > platforms, > > and not remove it entirely as you will break platforms. > > [Lv Zheng] > We won't remove SW_LID from the kernel :). > > And we haven't removed SW_LID from the acpi button driver. > We'll just stop sending "initial lid state" from acpi button driver, > i.e., the behavior carried out by "button.lid_init_state=ignore". > > Maybe it is not sufficient, after the userspace has been changed to > support the new event, we should stop sending SW_LID from acpi button > driver.
For the affected devices? Sure, but I don't think that's a reasonable thing to do for "all" the devices. We have a majority of laptops where this isn't a problem, and it's not even a problem any more on one of the devices that triggered this discussion (there's a patch for make the LID status match reality for the Surface 3).
