Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264304AbUDSIw6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2004 04:52:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264309AbUDSIw6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2004 04:52:58 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:8370 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264304AbUDSIw4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2004 04:52:56 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 01:52:21 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Tuukka Toivonen Cc: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de, b-gruber@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /dev/psaux-Interface Message-Id: <20040419015221.07a214b8.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1347 Lines: 38 Tuukka Toivonen wrote: > > psaux.c release 2004-04-19 > > This is psaux.c linux kernel driver for kernels 2.6.x, > a direct PS/2 serial port (aka /dev/psaux) driver. > > Available from: > http://www.ee.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/rel/psaux-2004-04-19.tar.gz > > (includes README with more information) > > The driver was originally written by Lee Sau Dan > http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee/fun/psaux/ > but I fixed some bugs (most importantly SMP). > > I've seen lots of discussions about different mouse behaviour (or > completely non-functioning mouse). If you have one of those problems, this > driver should restore the kernel 2.4.x behaviour. > > Any suggestions/hopes to get it included into mainstream kernel? I'd imagine that the input developers would regard that as a step in the wrong direction. Have you sent a report regarding the touchscreen problem? Is it a straightforward bug, or has real functionality been lost? > P.S. is there any documentation about the serio interface (serio_open() > etc...)? I couldn't find anywhere. Always a good question ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/