On 11/13/2007 04:12 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Bug fixing is not about finding someone to blame, it's about getting the
>> bug fixed.
>
> Partly - its also about understanding why the bug occurred and making it
> not happen again.
Very few people think about that part.
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>
>> And why did the mouse numbers all get rearranged in 2.6.20, e.g.
>> mouse1 became mouse2 for many people?
>
> Input devices are not guaranteed to be stable.
>
So people with z-axis mice need to redo their X config for each
kernel release when the device numbers chang
Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> The driver grabs tochpad with EVIOCGRAB ioctl to prevent input events
> from bveing delivered to X through /dev/input/mice which is still in
> whidespread use. That's why evtest does not work. We could as Peter
> (CCed) to implement an option to turn off grabbing so user
