From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: mousedev - stop offering PS/2 to userspace by default
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 09:44:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58661e80.43e61c0a.f871f.8af1@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20161229180731.GA5321@dtor-ws
On Thu 29. December 2016 19:07 Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Evdev interface has been available for many years and by now everyone
> is switched to using it, so let's stop offering /dev/input/mouseN
> and /dev/psaux by default.
Hi! There is one exception: gpm. Without /dev/input/mice it did not work
correctly and IIRC gpm daemon is only one present in linux distributions
for mouse support in linux console mode (ctrl+alt+f1). Disabling
/dev/input/mice by default will lead to broken or non-working gpm.
--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-30 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-29 18:07 [PATCH] Input: mousedev - stop offering PS/2 to userspace by default Dmitry Torokhov
2016-12-29 19:08 ` Jiri Kosina
2016-12-30 1:11 ` Peter Hutterer
2016-12-30 8:44 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2017-01-02 9:44 ` Benjamin Tissoires
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