linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Add full hotkey support

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Date:	Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:57:10 +0300
From:	Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] toshiba_acpi: Add full hotkey support

On 6 марта 2009 21:44:52 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:37:50PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > Trivial cleanup below. Also the patch should remove
> > /proc/acpi/toshiba/keys. It will consume hot keys as soon as they
> > are pressed, so user space watching this file has very little
> > chances to ever see them.
>
> Mm. Actually, thinking about it, the cleanest thing to do would
> probably be to disable the input device when the proc file is opened.

C'mon, really. Let's make it depend on _DEPRECATED and obsolete in 
2.6.31. Who needs this now?



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