HAL and INPUT

[Danny Kukawka]

On Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 20:09 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 02:01:54PM +0100, ext Richard Hughes wrote:
[...]
> > > So I think, ideally we need to do:
> > >
> > > * hardware remaping of keys using the keymap addon
> > > * for each input device:
> > >  - create a new individual hal device for any 'interesting' buttons and
> > > launch an addon monitoring the event file.
> > >  - and buttons that have state then merge in the extra properties

But no state information about normal keys like key 'Fn + CRT/LCD' is 
pressed/released. This would be useless info to me.

> > Sounds sensible to me, assuming that this is just things like
> > lid/sleep/whatever.
>
> Sure, we need to define the "whatever". Maybe just do lids that are
> useful to the session to know if they exist, like suspend and lid.

What about power? Btw. since when is suspend a lid?

Danny