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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

Well, I just looked at the most up-to-date acpid, and it supports netlink.

Therefore, the issue is just that thinkpad-acpi wants you to get hotkeys
from the input layer since kernel 2.6.23, and now finally the borrowed time
is over in Debian installs, with the procfs event delivery being shut off.

What I wrote about a thinkpad-apci backwards compatibility mode was slightly
incorrect...  teaches me to trust memories over one year old about stuff I
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.

This means that all configs that use acpid to process thinkpad-acpi hotkeys
will break, and need to be ported over to HAL or something else that binds
to input devices.

I think these bugs can be tagged "wontfix", and we just deal with it as the
usual perils of using "unstable" and "testing".  It is probably a good idea
to leave them open in the BTS for a while, in hopes that people will read
them before filing more bugs.

I don't think it affects any Debian standard config, but it will affect most
of the local configs by end-users.

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  Henrique Holschuh