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
>
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