Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:19:09 +0000 (GMT)
From: James Simmons <jsimmons@www.infradead.org>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
       dtor_core@ameritech.net, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
       James Simmons <jsimmons@pentafluge.infradead.org>,
       Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
       Linux Input Devices <linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6: drivers/input/power.c is never built
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> > What is the benefit of splitting the flow of information so?
> 
> It's split already. You get some from input (power and sleep keys on
> keyboards, sound volume keys and display brightness on some notebooks),
> some from ACPI events (power keys on notebooks and desktop cases, sound
> volume, display brightness on other notebooks), some from /proc/acpi/*
> (battery status, fan status), some from APM, from platform specific
> devices, from hotplug, from userspace daemons (UPS status).
> 
> The question is how to unify it.

When I wrote power.c I thought there was a common power management 
interface. I found out I was wrong. I though the new driver model supplied 
a common method for power management for all platforms 
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