Add Hardware Input Device for ACPI

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 12:14 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.

Matthew, do you know if the toshiba patches for input layer are going
upstream any time soon?

Thanks.

Richard.