Re: [Xpert]Linux input patch.

2002-11-11 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:03:09PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > > > > This means that, at least with 2.4.x, it is impossible to tell the > > > > difference between two identical mice. > > > > > > We'll backport whatever is important to 2.4 > > > > That is probably going to be EVIOCGPHYS and possibily

Re: [Xpert]Linux input patch.

2002-11-11 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 21:03, Zephaniah E\. Hull wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 07:58:50PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > > > EVIOCGUNIQ does not even exist in the 2.4.x headers, and EVIOCGBUS > > > happily returns 0 0 0 0, instead of useful data. > > > > W

Re: [Xpert]Linux input patch.

2002-11-11 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 07:58:50PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > > EVIOCGUNIQ does not even exist in the 2.4.x headers, and EVIOCGBUS > > happily returns 0 0 0 0, instead of useful data. > What kernel are you using? I'll take a look if I can get some time. > Note that EVIOCGBUS is gone in 2.5 (replace

Re: [Xpert]Linux input patch.

2002-11-11 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:44, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:03:34AM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:12:49PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > > > > > > > > Hmm, obviously this makes my current identificatio

Re: [Xpert]Linux input patch.

2002-11-11 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:03:34AM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:12:49PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > > > > Hmm, obviously this makes my current identification method rather > > > suboptimial. > > Depends on the problem we need to solve. If the machine only has one of

Re: [Xpert]Linux input patch.

2002-11-10 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 03:12:49PM +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > > Hmm, obviously this makes my current identification method rather > > suboptimial. > Depends on the problem we need to solve. If the machine only has one of each > device, then it doesn't matter where it is plugged in, and we can use

Re: [Xpert]Linux input patch.

2002-11-10 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:43, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:55:00AM +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:43, Alexander Stohr wrote: > > > > This patch (attached) add support under Linux for talking to mice > > > > di

Re: [Xpert]Linux input patch.

2002-11-10 Thread Zephaniah E. Hull
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:55:00AM +1100, Brad Hards wrote: > On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:43, Alexander Stohr wrote: > > > This patch (attached) add support under Linux for talking to mice > > > directly from the event interface, IE, /dev/input/event. > > > > > > It is stashed as a os specific protocol,

Re: [Xpert]Linux input patch.

2002-11-10 Thread Brad Hards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:43, Alexander Stohr wrote: > > This patch (attached) add support under Linux for talking to mice > > directly from the event interface, IE, /dev/input/event. > > > > It is stashed as a os specific protocol, evdev, the Device > >

RE: [Xpert]Linux input patch.

2002-11-10 Thread Alexander Stohr
Title: RE: [Xpert]Linux input patch. > This patch (attached) add support under Linux for talking to mice > directly from the event interface, IE, /dev/input/event. > > It is stashed as a os specific protocol, evdev, the Device > option is not > a device, but instead is the