linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] input: A few new KEY

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Date:	Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:22:39 -0400
From:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	"Lennart Poettering" <mzxreary@...inter.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: A few new KEY_xxx definitions

On 8/8/06, Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 07.08.06 22:19, Dmitry Torokhov (dtor@...ightbb.com) wrote:
>
> > > KEY_POWERPLUG, KEY_POWERUNPLUG:
> > >
> > >     Some laptops generate a fake key event when the power cord is
> > >     plugged or unplugged. (Notably MSI laptops, such as S270)
> > >
> >
> > How do these events get delivered? Are you saying that atkbd reports
> > key presses when pulling out AC cord?
>
> Yes, exactly.
>

Lennart,

I applied part of the patch defining KEY_BLUETOOTH and KEY_WLAN, but I
did not apply KEY_POWER[UN]PLUG. I feel that these should not be
defined as KEY_* events but (if we decide that they should be reported
through input layer) as EV_PWR events.

-- 
Dmitry
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