From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jun 21 14:18:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA01252 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 14:18:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (castles145.castles.com [208.214.165.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA01231; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 14:18:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA03183; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 11:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806211851.LAA03183@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG cc: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper), nirva@ishiboo.com, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: X-10 Mouse Remote patch In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 18 Jun 1998 15:06:36 +0200." <199806181306.PAA22009@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 11:51:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id OAA01233 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > And it has NO business in moused whatsoever, its a hack and it doesn't > belong there. I'm sorry I havn't noticed this before, but its should be > ripped out ASAP, I would never have allowed it in there if I had > found out before. Actually, no. The MouseRemote is a mouse, amongst other things, and it's specifically intended to be connected inline with mice. As such, our protocol handler for mouse data streams is the correct place to put it. Ripping it out without simultaneously coming up with an equally functional and architecturally 'better' solution is not going to endear you to anyone. I did actually propose to Randall the implementation of a stackable 'interception' layer, again to be managed by moused, however with only one device (so far) in this particular circumstance, it didn't seem worth the effort. -- \\ 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-multimedia" in the body of the message