From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] horizontal mouse wheel in mousedrv
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:27:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d120d5000801031027i3c2dade5p16a62ec34d84d465@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080103182710.26f69d40@poseidon.drzeus.cx>
On Jan 3, 2008 12:27 PM, Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> wrote:
> 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.
>
As far as I remember the hotplug for X is being actively developed at
the moment.
--
Dmitry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-03 18:27 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
2008-01-03 18:27 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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