On Thu, Jan 06, 2000 at 09:09:42PM -0500, Blake Scholl wrote:
>
> In the future, would it make sense to perhaps write some sort of a
> "smart" kernel mouse driver and protocol, which could supply the
> user-level with extra information, such as number of buttons, axes,
> etc., allowing a single protocol to support a wide variety of mice,
> including ones which haven't been developed yet. Or, would meaning
> putting a lot of driver smarts in the kernel that rightfully belong at
> the user level?
>
I think the Input Driver overhaul will do what you want. Its homepage
is at http://www.suse.cz/development/input/
But it's been determined that these patches will not make it into 2.3 or
2.4, you'll have to wait for 2.5 for them to be considered.
greg k-h
greg@kroah.com
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