From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@aitel.hist.no>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
dtor_core@ameritech.net, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.11-mm3 mouse oddity
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:29:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050316172947.GC1608@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42380094.2050704@aitel.hist.no>
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:47:00AM +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> >Mouse device numbers are defined to be unstable because of hotplug.
> >
> >Most users use /dev/input/mice, where this won't have impact.
> >
> >The officially correct solution is to use udev to get stable device
> >names.
> >
> >The change is easily reverted - just change the 'atkbd.scroll' default
> >value.
> Please don't remove it - it is nice to have support for the hardware.
> Apps using this is also necessary - and they are possible now.
> If you want to go the route of least surprise you may want to
> make sure the "new" mice get higher numbers instead of
> pushing "older" mice around.
The numbers are based on probe order, first come, first serve.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-16 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-12 11:42 2.6.11-mm3 Andrew Morton
2005-03-12 12:20 ` 2.6.11-mm3 Jens Axboe
2005-03-12 12:41 ` 2.6.11-mm3 Reuben Farrelly
2005-03-12 15:51 ` 2.6.11-mm3 Anton Altaparmakov
2005-03-12 13:18 ` 2.6.11-mm3: saa7134-core.c compile error Adrian Bunk
2005-03-15 4:38 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-15 17:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-12 13:40 ` 2.6.11-mm3 Ed Tomlinson
2005-03-12 15:52 ` 2.6.11-mm3 Anton Altaparmakov
2005-03-12 15:55 ` [2.6 patch] drivers/net/sis900.c: fix a warning Adrian Bunk
2005-03-12 17:30 ` [2.6 patch] drivers/video/intelfb/: " Adrian Bunk
2005-03-12 19:13 ` DRI breakage, 2.6.11-mm[123] Sean Neakums
2005-03-12 19:29 ` Sean Neakums
2005-03-12 23:13 ` Dave Airlie
2005-03-12 23:58 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-13 12:48 ` Sean Neakums
2005-03-13 13:34 ` Dave Airlie
2005-03-13 12:01 ` 2.6.11-mm3: machine check on sleep, PowerBook5.4 Sean Neakums
2005-03-13 12:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-13 12:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-13 12:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-13 16:19 ` Sean Neakums
2005-03-13 19:07 ` Sean Neakums
2005-03-13 21:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-13 22:08 ` Sean Neakums
2005-03-13 22:10 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-13 22:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-13 21:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-03-13 16:31 ` 2.6.11-mm3 Barry K. Nathan
2005-03-14 16:25 ` 2.6.11-mm3 (compile stats) John Cherry
2005-03-14 21:54 ` 2.6.11-mm3 - DRM/i915 broken Brice Goglin
2005-03-14 22:30 ` Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
2005-03-14 22:57 ` Brice Goglin
2005-03-16 9:36 ` Dave Airlie
2005-03-17 18:57 ` Brice Goglin
2005-03-19 2:45 ` Fix agp_backend usage in drm_agp_init (was: 2.6.11-mm3 - DRM/i915 broken) Brice Goglin
2005-03-19 3:40 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-19 3:48 ` Jesse Barnes
2005-03-19 16:32 ` Jesse Barnes
[not found] ` <200503191247.48963.werner@sgi.com>
[not found] ` <21d7e9970503231247179b7c46@mail.gmail.com>
2005-03-24 8:45 ` Dave Airlie
2005-03-16 18:57 ` 2.6.11-mm3 - DRM/i915 broken Ruben Fonseca
2005-03-15 7:57 ` 2.6.11-mm3 Stefano Rivoir
2005-03-15 12:25 ` 2.6.11-mm3 mouse oddity Helge Hafting
2005-03-15 14:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-15 14:36 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-03-15 19:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-15 19:33 ` Dave Jones
2005-03-15 19:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-15 19:54 ` Sean
2005-03-15 20:10 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-03-16 9:47 ` Helge Hafting
2005-03-16 17:29 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2005-03-16 9:44 ` Helge Hafting
2005-03-16 17:30 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-03-17 11:09 ` Helge Hafting
2005-03-17 12:14 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-03-15 15:06 ` 2.6.11-mm3: megaraid_sas.c: stack usage Adrian Bunk
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