[PATCH] add release and repeat to addon-input

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 11:48:35AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 02:04 +0200, Robert Gerlach wrote:
> > with this patch, addon-input reports "ButtonReleased" and
> > "ButtonRepeat" beside "ButtonPressed".
> 
> How's this useful? The only thing that uses these events is session
> stuff like g-p-m that just want to know if a button has been pressed.
> This is all going to be obsoleted when the acpi drivers convert to
> INPUT, although, this may take some time.

It's nice to be able to change the brightness by holding down the 
brightness key, rather than having to press it repeatedly.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org