From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dmitry Torokhov" Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] horizontal mouse wheel in mousedrv Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:27:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20071225164921.16bccae3@poseidon.drzeus.cx> <20080103182710.26f69d40@poseidon.drzeus.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.184]:12883 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752024AbYACS1k (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:27:40 -0500 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g13so421817nfb.21 for ; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:27:39 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20080103182710.26f69d40@poseidon.drzeus.cx> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Pierre Ossman Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On Jan 3, 2008 12:27 PM, Pierre Ossman wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:25:21 -0500 > "Dmitry Torokhov" 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