HAL FDI matched Buttons

[Timo Hoenig]

Hi,

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 14:17 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:

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> The specific addon for toshiba laptops. Toshiba acpi extensions are
> really messed up with the button handling, only presenting a pollable
> interface, i.e. with no interrupts.

Same for IBM non-acpi keys, nvram.

> The rest of the acpi laptops out there should generate acpi events
> for extra buttons, which we can trivially catch in the existing acpi
> addon.

They don't.  There are other interfaces than /proc/acpi/event.

> Richard.

   Timo