From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 17 14:47:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA08383 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:47:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08289 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:46:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA03212; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:30:22 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802172230.OAA03212@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Zach Heilig cc: Terry Lambert , sthaug@nethelp.no, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs persistence In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 17 Feb 1998 07:24:45 CST." <19980217072445.51226@gaffaneys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 14:30:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 10:57:48AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > - ln -s cuaa0 mouse > > > This is somewhat non-sensical as well. The mouse should use a protocol > > virtualizer so that a /dev/mouse is reexported, and it doesn't matter > > what your physical mouse hardware is, the thing looks like a mousesystems > > (or other) mouse, always, so that programs don't have to care about this. > > > I think your problem is that the current mouse interface is so primitive. > > Actually, as long as daemons can make entries for devfs (in this case, moused), > everything would make sense again. They can, and they do, and the whole question is moot because the mouse support *does* use a protocol virtualiser. (moused and /dev/sysmouse) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message