[patch 01/11] powerpc/cell: add support for power button of future IBM cell blades

[Christian Krafft]

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:12:23 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 21:05 +0200, arnd at arndb.de wrote:
> > plain text document attachment
> > (0001-powerpc-cell-add-support-for-power-button-of-future.patch)
> > This patch adds support for the power button on future IBM cell blades.
> > It actually doesn't shut down the machine. Instead it exposes an
> > input device /dev/input/event0 to userspace which sends KEY_POWER
> > if power button has been pressed.
> > haldaemon actually recognizes the button, so a plattform independent acpid
> > replacement should handle it correctly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft at de.ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> > ---
> 
> And what if CONFIG_INPUT=n or m ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
> 

hm, good point.
Only wrapping with ifdefs will not fix the CONFIG_INPUT=m case.
Have to think about it again, will send an update ...

Cheers,
ck

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