In the process of migrating from a custom Linux distro (built with Bitbake) to using the default Linaro Debian release.
On our old distro, we have been using the /dev/input/event0 endpoint to get events from the power button, and, for a reason I can’t figure out, the power button wasn’t setup to reset/power the device.
What is the cause of the mapping of the power button to reset the OS for Debian? And, how can I unmap this relationship?
The Power button is connected to a pin of the board pmic (pm8916). The device tree, describing the hardware assigns this pin to the KEY_POWER Linux code:
The KEY_POWER value is then generated via the input event interface.
The user space init process (systemd) listens for events on /dev/event interface and causes the shutdown/reboot on KEY_POWER event detection:
So you can either remove the KEY_POWER linux-code from the device tree node or inhibit the systemd power-off action by setting HandlePowerKey=ignore in /etc/systemd/logind.conf.
thank you so much!
Greatly appreciate the quick response!
