Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

[Petr Baudis]

Hello,

  About June 2001, in the era of 2.4.7 kernel, there occured a patch on LKML
(by Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador@inti.gov.ar>), which improved the actual
selection API of kernel to allow applications to get the content of the
selection buffer etc. However, James Simmons said that he will be working on
this for 2.5 and move it to userspace completely, reworking gpm.

  Nevertheless, I didn't saw a notice about this at all since then - there's no
metion about this on linuxconsole's project homepage, in the 2.5 todo list nor
anywhere else - and as I'm looking forward for this change a lot, I would like
to ask if there's any movement in this issue. I would be even willing to help,
if possible :).

  Kind regards,

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Re: [gpm]Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

[Nico Schottelius]

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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:24:15PM +0100 Petr Baudis put his fingers on the keyboard an wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   About June 2001, in the era of 2.4.7 kernel, there occured a patch on LKML
> (by Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador@inti.gov.ar>), which improved the actual
> selection API of kernel to allow applications to get the content of the
> selection buffer etc. However, James Simmons said that he will be working on
> this for 2.5 and move it to userspace completely, reworking gpm.

Possibly I got a mail about that, but as I have a huge backlog, I didn't
read it. 
Possibly I have never heard about that and don't know anything particular about
it.
But in fact, improving something is generally good and if I have/get some
information about that, we could include it in gpm. 

> [..], I would like to ask if there's any movement in this issue.

Not here.

> I would be even willing to help, > if possible :).

Sounds good, so you're the person wrinting the patch for gpm ;)

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Re: Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

[James Simmons]

> However, James Simmons said that he will be working on
> this for 2.5 and move it to userspace completely, reworking gpm.

Yes I plan to move the selection code to userland. 

>   Nevertheless, I didn't saw a notice about this at all since then - 
> there's no metion about this on linuxconsole's project homepage, in the
> 2.5 todo list nor anywhere else - and as I'm looking forward for this
> change a lot, I would like to ask if there's any movement in this issue.
> I would be even willing to help, if possible :).

I haven't gotten around to it but I do plan to work on it. I could use all
the help I can get.

Re: [gpm]Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

[James Simmons]

> Possibly I have never heard about that and don't know anything particular about
> it.
> But in fact, improving something is generally good and if I have/get some
> information about that, we could include it in gpm. 

It never really got out since I never got the chance to rework gpm. 

> Sounds good, so you're the person wrinting the patch for gpm ;)

There are alos patches to get GPM working with the input api in CVS. I
can post them.

Re: [gpm]Re: Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

[Nico Schottelius]

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> > However, James Simmons said that he will be working on
> > this for 2.5 and move it to userspace completely, reworking gpm.
> 
> Yes I plan to move the selection code to userland. 

Please wait until gpm-1.20.0 finally is released, so you can patch 
against this. 

> >   Nevertheless, I didn't saw a notice about this at all since then - 
> > there's no metion about this on linuxconsole's project homepage, in the
> > 2.5 todo list nor anywhere else - and as I'm looking forward for this
> > change a lot, I would like to ask if there's any movement in this issue.
> > I would be even willing to help, if possible :).
> 
> I haven't gotten around to it but I do plan to work on it. I could use all
> the help I can get.

Same here :)
But surely we'll help you where possible.

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Re: [gpm]Reworking the selection API and moving it to userspace (gpm)?

[Nico Schottelius]

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> > Possibly I have never heard about that and don't know anything particular about
> > it.
> > But in fact, improving something is generally good and if I have/get some
> > information about that, we could include it in gpm. 
> 
> It never really got out since I never got the chance to rework gpm. 

You got it together with me. 

> > Sounds good, so you're the person wrinting the patch for gpm ;)
> 
> There are alos patches to get GPM working with the input api in CVS. I
> can post them.

Just send them.

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