From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 15 0:42:14 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A01514C2C; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 00:41:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA32686; Mon, 15 Nov 1999 10:41:42 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199911150841.KAA32686@gratis.grondar.za> To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Kazutaka YOKOTA , Garrett Wollman , Peter Wemm , Bruce Evans Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/syscons scmouse.c src/sys/i386/conf Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 10:41:41 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > They still work pretty well. They're 'the garbage can' because you put things > that don't fit the read/write model there. They are over-used and dirty. They have their uses, but they are very incosistently used, and lead to poor standardisation. (Written from experience as the author of rndcontrol(8)) > Why not make vidcontrol deal with it? It already handles console stuff. Won't work. It is a per-mouse thing. (I use two mice on my laptop - one is two button (the builtin); the other is three-button (a "normal" mouse)). Each must be separately controlled. (The current system needs fixing in this regard) M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message