The USB input layer is part of a larger input layer rewrite scheduled for 2.5 you can find details here. http://www.suse.cz/development/input/ Basically I think the keyboard and mice and everything will have default interfaces whether they are bus, ps2, serial, usb or something else.
Peter > > Okay, so the input layer is all cool and stuff. Good 'nough. > Now, when I > was using the usb backport on 2.2.18, plugging in a usb mouse worked > instantly as it got converted and dumped into the psaux device, as I > understand it, anyway. I don't remember if the input layer was around > then, but now I'm seeing that the usb mouse device gets created in the > input layer and can be accessed via mouse0, etc. or through > mice. As I've > read, all of the mouse* devices get dumped into mice. This > is the same > behavior I saw on 2.2.18. However, the ps/2 mouse still goes through > psaux, and only psaux. So, setting up XFree, for example, to use > /dev/psaux works and setting it to use /dev/input/mice (and > mouse0) works, > but it's only one or the other. Anyway the question although it isn't > absolutely your field of maintainence is, are these thoughts > correct and > is someone already working on getting the ps/2 port to go through the > input layer? I think it should go that way, and not the input layer > getting merged with psaux. Thoughts? Flames? > > Thanks, > Jeff > > ________________________________________________ > Nach dem Spiel > ist vor dem Spiel --Sepp Herberger > > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
