acpi_fakekey is just broken, it's just unreasonable to send a key to a
random keyboard device and expect that the kernel will let the event
though the key isn't actually present on the keyboard.

If we decide to keep acpi_fakekey around, I think we should switch to
uinput to get rid of these issues once and for all as proposed earlier
in this bug report.  See http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21350541/acpi-
support_0.115_0.115%2Bthjaeger1.diff.gz for a suggested implementation.

By the way, the issue has been "fixed" on my thinkpad; the ThinkVantage
button now calls acpi_fakekey on a different keycode that the kernel
doesn't drop, but this issue is still present for example for KEY_WWW.

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