Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261361AbVBRNbA (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:31:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261353AbVBRNbA (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:31:00 -0500 Received: from gprs215-15.eurotel.cz ([160.218.215.15]:978 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261352AbVBRNax (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:30:53 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:26:51 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Richard Purdie Cc: Vojtech Pavlik , James Simmons , Adrian Bunk , Linux Input Devices , Linux Kernel Mailing List , dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com Subject: Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built Message-ID: <20050218132651.GA1813@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050213004729.GA3256@stusta.de> <20050214193438.GB7763@ucw.cz> <20050218122217.GA1523@elf.ucw.cz> <047401c515bb$437b5130$0f01a8c0@max> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <047401c515bb$437b5130$0f01a8c0@max> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1627 Lines: 39 Hi! > >> > CONFIG_INPUT_POWER was enabled - but it is nowhere possible to enable > >> > this option. > >> > >> That was written a long time ago before the new power management went > >> in. > >> On PDA's there is a power button and suspend button. So this was a hook > >> so that the input layer could detect the power/suspend button being > >> presses and then power down or turn off the device. Now that the new > >> power > >> management is in what should we do? > > > >Change power.c to generate power events like ACPI does, most likely. > > > There was some recent discussion of this on linux-input. It was basically > agreed that the input system should pass the request on to ACPI and/or apm > and Dmitry Torokhov (cc'd) proposed a patch that did this. His patch needed > to be slightly modified to work with arm apm, the final result being: > > http://www.rpsys.net/openzaurus/2.6.11-rc4/input_power-r1.patch > > I can confirm this works well on arm with apm enabled. It has quite a lot of #ifdefs for CONFIG_APM/CONFIG_ARM/CONFIG_ACPI, and it will not work on i386/APM, anyway. I still believe right solution is to add input interface to ACPI. /proc/acpi/events needs to die, being replaced by input subsystem. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ 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 majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/