Last time the issue was brought up (and I do believe it was because of
thinkpad-acpi :-) ), he made it clear that any events you are to act upon
are fine in input, but events that are just notifications (i.e. the firmware
already did the action) are not.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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