From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?q?J=F6rg_Hundertmarck?= <joerg@hundertmarck.de>
Subject: Re: Simple extension to psmouse driver (tp-scroll in kernel mode)
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:48:38 -0500
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On Tuesday 31 October 2006 16:28, J?rg Hundertmarck wrote:
> Hello world,
> 
> I've wrote a simple extension to the psmouse driver. It's an emulation for the
> scrolling wheel on TrackPoint mice. It's functionally the same like the userspace
> daemon tp-scroll but it doesn't lag if the system has full load. The emulation
> starts when you press the middle mouse button, then you can "scroll" up and
> down by moving the mouse into the desired direction. It stops when the button
> released. When you press and release the button without move, the button event
> is transfered. This feature is not enabled by default, you need to set
> CONFIG_MOUSE_TPWHEEL=y.
> 
> Here's the patch:
> http://www.hirnfrei.org/~joerg/linux_patches/linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r7-tp-scroll.patch
> 
> The patch is tested against the the 2.6.17 and 2.6.18.1 kernel source.
> 
> I hope that's the correct mailing list and my code is usefull.
>

Hi,

Thank you for your patch, however I do not think it is needed anymore
since required functionality was added to X. Please see here:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint
http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2006-January/031714.html
 
-- 
Dmitry
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