On Saturday 16 June 2007 10:44, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > thinkpad-acpi can now be made to export EV_SW SW_LID events to the input > layer. > > However, most (all?) thinkpads will also generate ACPI notifications to > \_SB.LID, on LID changes, i.e. this would duplicate an ACPI LID event, and I > undertand ACPI is already moving to provide those over an input device by > itself. > > Given that situation, is it desireable for thinkpad-acpi to export EV_SW > SW_LID events by itself (possibly duplicating an event that the ACPI layer > will also issue)? Or should I just ignore the lid events, and leave them > for the ACPI layer to deal with? >
I would just rely on ACPI button driver to deliver EV_SW/SW_LID events. After all there is only one lid switch on the box so having 2 input devices rep[orting it is counter-intuitive. -- Dmitry
