Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750764AbVLYAwO (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:52:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750765AbVLYAwN (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:52:13 -0500 Received: from smtp103.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([68.142.229.102]:46671 "HELO smtp103.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750764AbVLYAwN (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:52:13 -0500 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Re: PowerBook5,8 - TrackPad update Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:52:09 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 Cc: Pavel Machek , Michael Hanselmann , Stelian Pop , Parag Warudkar , debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org, linux-kernel , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net References: <111520052143.16540.437A5680000BE8A60000409C220076369200009A9B9CD3040A029D0A05@comcast.net> <20051224231928.GC2183@elf.ucw.cz> <1135470801.6387.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1135470801.6387.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512241952.10687.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1132 Lines: 30 On Saturday 24 December 2005 19:33, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > It should be doable once in gpm, all other apps can use gpm's repeater > > mode... > > > > > When it's in raw mode for use by the synaptics X driver, if course, it's > > > expected that those things are to be done by that driver. > > > > ...but you are right, doing it in /dev/input/mice emulation layer > > makes some sense. OTOH I thought we were moving away from > > /dev/input/mice... Its Dmitry's call I guess. > > Heh, yes, it is. No hurry anyway, I finally got synaptics working > properly in X ... > > Why would we move away from the mouse mux ? It's proven to be very > useful to me at least :) > It is very limited - number of buttons, wheels, etc. Once X supports hotplugging mouse multipexor outgrows its usefullness (GPM can simply be restarted every time we detect new input device). -- Dmitry - 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/