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Date:      30 Nov 2002 15:28:18 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PS/2 Mice device - synaptics touch pad.
Message-ID:  <1038632298.39254.16.camel@chowder.dons.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <3DE794AD.6000908@gmx.net>
References:  <3DE794AD.6000908@gmx.net>

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On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 02:54, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> Looking further I discovered that the writing method is filled with a
> global nowrite() function.
> 
> What should I do about it:
> 
> 1. Just provide the trivial psmwrite() augmenting kernel level function, thus
> presering the higher level driver for XFree?
> 
> 2. Move everything in to the kernel space?! (The driver isn't exactly
> small due to many features like border detection and so on...)

I think number 1 is probably best, IMHO it should go into moused, but
given the way the moused code is written that is pretty tough :(

Also if you follow step 1 you will have to provide some way of telling
the psm device not to validate the input stream, because otherwise it
will barf on the absolute packets.
(I have done a little tinkering, but the moused/psm code makes my head
explode)

-- 
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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