[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#521280: acpid does support netlink, so the problem only affects thinkpad-acpi

Michael Meskes meskes at debian.org
Thu May 21 21:34:54 UTC 2009


On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:44:32PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> never had to look back at, before writing something.  The non-hotkey events
> go over netlink, yes.  But hotkeys go only over the input device, where they
> belong, and there is no driver switch to mess with that.

Could anyone enlighten me please, where these events are to be found? acpid does
not just read the netlink inteface but also the input layer and thus is
*supposed* to also get events coming over an input device. You can use kacpimon
to try it out.

Michael
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