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Date:      Mon, 6 May 1996 18:43:28 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        rjwiwat@adelaide.on.net (Richard Wiwatowski)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel drivers
Message-ID:  <199605060913.SAA14490@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <01I4D2ADP5PU000K7V@adelaide.on.net> from "Richard Wiwatowski" at May 5, 96 10:18:01 pm

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Richard Wiwatowski stands accused of saying:
> 
> I wish to report that the standard PS/2 mouse driver doesn't work. I'm not
> expert in things Un*x, C or kernel but I have managed to kludge together a
> version of "psm.c" that works for me. I based the changes I've made on the
> NetBSD "pms.c" driver and the FreeBSD "mse.c" driver (for the glitzy stuff).

I'm curious.  Obviously it _does_ work; plenty of people are using it.

Why not find why it doesn't work for you, and provide a patch against the
current FreeBSD driver, rather than reinvent the wheel?

> I hope you find my "psm.c" useful.

Filed for reference 8)

Generally something like this should be FTP'd to ftp.cdrom.com/FreeBSD/incoming
rather than spamming the list with it...

> Richard

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