From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264453AbUE3Xuz (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 19:50:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264471AbUE3Xuy (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 19:50:54 -0400 Received: from smtp808.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([66.163.168.187]:17263 "HELO smtp808.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S264453AbUE3Xux (ORCPT ); Sun, 30 May 2004 19:50:53 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Vojtech Pavlik Subject: Re: SERIO_USERDEV patch for 2.6 Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 18:50:48 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sau Dan Lee , tuukkat@ee.oulu.fi References: <200405301116.31356.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20040530205119.GD1971@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20040530205119.GD1971@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405301850.49219.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 30 May 2004 03:51 pm, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:16:31AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > But in the meantime marking several ports raw will allow most of the users > > use old means of communicating with their pointing devices without too > > much effort. > > It'd be good to find out what devices we don't support yet (I know of > ALPS, which we have a patch pending for and IBM TouchPoints), too. > Sau Dan Lee's Lifebook touchscreen ;) The data processing seems to be trivial, but I don't have any idea how to detect it. And without being able to explicitly control binding for a specific serio port its hard to do drivers for hardware that we can't autodetect. We just have to assume that device behind a port is of specific type and when there are many ports its usually wrong. > As an interim solution, your patch plus a simple serio->userspace driver > would work, too. > -- Dmitry