Add Hardware Input Device for ACPI

[David Zeuthen]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 14:37 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 14:27 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > I still wonder whether the better approach would just be to make sure 
> > that all these buttons generate events through the kernel input layer.
> 
> Yes you are correct, and I still think this is the *long term* plan.

I'm not sure I exactly know what this "plan" entails but I'd love to
know more.... Are you guys saying that in some shiny future we'll just
listen on device file for button presses? How would we know what buttons
are available then?

    David