From: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] horizontal mouse wheel in mousedrv
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 18:27:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080103182710.26f69d40@poseidon.drzeus.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000801030825s5d87c2eflc712979e587d4d6a@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:25:21 -0500
"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd rather not change the legacy mousedev driver. The extension is
> rather non-standard and there is no telling what applications might
> break. Please use evdev driver, it should support horizontal scrolling
> AFAIK.
>
It does, but it doesn't support hot-plug. Not something the kernel can be blamed for, but for my use case it was easier to do this modification to the kernel rather than to teach Xorg hot-plug.
Rgds
--
-- Pierre Ossman
Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org
PulseAudio, core developer http://pulseaudio.org
rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-03 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-25 15:49 [RFC, PATCH] horizontal mouse wheel in mousedrv Pierre Ossman
2008-01-03 16:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-01-03 17:27 ` Pierre Ossman [this message]
2008-01-03 18:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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