Add Hardware Input Device for ACPI

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:47:34PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:

> 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?

In the shiny future where we have flying cars and food pills, ACPI 
button drivers will register an input layer device. This will result in 
a /dev/input/whatever, which can then be listened on by HAL. The input 
layer provides functionality for drivers to list which buttons they 
support - try running evtest against your existing nodes and see what 
you get back.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org