On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 06:29:23PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 05:10:45PM +0000, Tati Chevron wrote:
why does it have to be integrated into the same mouse driver that everybody
else uses?
Since you seem to care about this topic enough to actually contend
with what Ulf has been working on for months, let's phrase it this way:
Ulf's mails have diffs attached, and yours don't. Easy choice.
I don't see the connection. I don't agree with the idea, nor see any
real-world use or benefit to this change. Response of any kind on the
list has been very limited too. Even Ulf has commented that maybe
people are happy with things the way they are. What diffs would you
expect to see from anyone who wanted no change?
I've had several input layer diffs in my own personal tree for over
four years that were rejected by Miod as not having a general use case.
No problem. I maintain them, because I use them. If you and Ulf have
a use for these changes, but nobody else is interested enough to even
test and comment, why are you so worried?
As much as we'd like to keep things stable, we need to make progress, too.
But it has to be progress in a useful direction, surely? And why can't
this all be done in a separate driver that doesn't touch wsmouse?
And of course the community is not going to accept diffs (from anyone)
which cause major regressions. So I don't see why you're so worried.
To me, the extra and unnecessary code running on every machine that
just has a PS/2 mouse, is a regression. If we did this with everything,
we'd be Linux. The good thing about OpenBSD for me is that it supports
a few things very well, rather than trying to support every possible use
case regardless of it's state of readiness or if it has a real value.
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Tati Chevron
Perl and FORTRAN specialist.
SWABSIT development and migration department.
http://www.swabsit.com
