From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 6 02:12:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA25065 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 02:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA24920 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 02:09:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA14490; Mon, 6 May 1996 18:43:29 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605060913.SAA14490@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: kernel drivers To: rjwiwat@adelaide.on.net (Richard Wiwatowski) Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 18:43:28 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <01I4D2ADP5PU000K7V@adelaide.on.net> from "Richard Wiwatowski" at May 5, 96 10:18:01 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[