Re: [patch] Re: ps/2 mouse (synaptics touchpad)

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Jul 29 2000 - 11:29:28 EST


> kernel ? Both gpm and Xserver know which device they are configured to use
> and can be intelligent about it. Otherwise, if we start probing mice in
> the kernel we should all the device code from gpm in there as well.. And
> this also hazards that relatively recent kernels will not work correctly
> with some, even newer, mice which pnp id's has not made it into the
> kernel.

If someone cares to submit the XFree and gpm patches (actually just gpm is
enough since gpm has repeater mode) that would work well yes

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