Re: [MOUSE] Alias for /dev/psaux

[Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:49:42AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > 
> > We could save the bootup mouse settings (the mouse will tell us) and
> > restore them after we go trough all the probing if desired.
> 
> That sounds like a good idea. At least for the mice that we didn't 
> recognize, that otherwise get basically "random" commands.
> 
> How about something like this:
> 
>  - if "mouse_noext" is set (which implies that we won't be doing any 
>    probing), we also don't set rate/precision unless the user asked us.
> 
>    Thus "psmouse_noext" becomes the "ultra-safe" setting. We still want to 
>    have some way to set things like wheel etc info by hand later on (ie as
>    a response to the user _telling_ us what mouse it is), but that's a
>    more long-range plan.
> 
>  - if we do probing, we first ask the mouse for its current details, and 
>    we restore the thing by default afterwards. That at least should give 
>    us 2.4.x behaviour unless the mouse is broken (and for broken mice 
>    you'd just have to have "mouse_noext").
> 
>    Again, long-term we'd want to have the possibility of tweaking the 
>    results later even with the autodetection.
> 
> Does that sound like a reasonable plan?

Yes, it does.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR