[PATCH] via-pmu: report powerbutton as proper input event
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Mon May 1 19:35:16 EST 2006
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 11:21 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 19:09 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > What else does it report? As far as I know it doesn't have anything
> > > else, at least on my system.
> >
> > Depends on the machine... earlier ones have the backlight there or
> > volume control.. then LID close could be an event too...
>
> Ok, yea. Well, we need to rework all of that. Currently, to get at the
> lid status, you have to open /dev/adb and do something through that.
>
> I honestly don't understand the reason for this. Is it just historic?
Yes.
Ben.
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