debug.acpi.avoid, how do i use it to tell acpi to not control the keyboard?

[Nate Lawson]

John L.Utz III wrote:
> oops, correction
> 
> At Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:47:08 +0000,
> John L.Utz III wrote:
>> Hello again;
>>
>> to quote man acpi:
>>
>>
>>      It is also possible to avoid portions of the ACPI namespace which may be
>>      causing problems, by listing the full path of the root of the region to
>>      be avoided in the kernel environment variable debug.acpi.avoid.  The
>>      object and all of its children will be ignored during the bus/children
>>      scan of the namespace.  The ACPI CA code will still know about the
>>      avoided region.
>>
>> so, if i wanted to let acpi drive the power button and the suspend keypress but ignore everything else, how would one do that?
> 
> 
> amend to read       
> 
> so, if i wanted to let acpi drive the power button and the suspend keypress
> but ignore everything else ON THE KEYBOARD, how would one do that?
> 
>  
>> or failing that, can someone provide a sample use of acpi.debug.avoid that i can work from?
>>

Nope, that's not how PCs work.

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Nate