Hi!
> >> > CONFIG_INPUT_POWER was enabled - but it is nowhere possible to enable > >> > this option. > >> > >> That was written a long time ago before the new power management went > >> in. > >> On PDA's there is a power button and suspend button. So this was a hook > >> so that the input layer could detect the power/suspend button being > >> presses and then power down or turn off the device. Now that the new > >> power > >> management is in what should we do? > > > >Change power.c to generate power events like ACPI does, most likely. > > > There was some recent discussion of this on linux-input. It was basically > agreed that the input system should pass the request on to ACPI and/or apm > and Dmitry Torokhov (cc'd) proposed a patch that did this. His patch needed > to be slightly modified to work with arm apm, the final result being: > > http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/2.6.11-rc4/input_power-r1.patch > > I can confirm this works well on arm with apm enabled. It has quite a lot of #ifdefs for CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ACPI, and it will not work on i386/APM, anyway. I still believe right solution is to add input interface to ACPI. /proc/acpi/events needs to die, being replaced by input subsystem. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
