Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 07:06:46 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> To: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, Danny Dulai <nirva@ishiboo.com>, Amancio Hasty Jr <hasty@netcom.com>, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: X-10 Mouse Remote patch Message-ID: <19980619070646.A10032@ct.picker.com> In-Reply-To: <19980619064232.A9735@ct.picker.com>; from Randall Hopper on Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 06:42:32AM -0400 References: <19980618230545.62667@bleep.ishiboo.com> <199806190625.IAA00329@sos.freebsd.dk> <19980619064232.A9735@ct.picker.com>
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Sren Schmidt:
|Yep it will endeed, this is the way to do it guys, the current hacks
|to moused are, well, nicely put, GROSS!!
...
|Guys you need to do a little design now and then, not all these
|quick hacks, if not FreeBSD will end up being like the L word :)
On the subject of hacks and design, when I found out this is how
/dev/sysmouse works a few weeks ago, I was somewhat disappointed:
/----> syscons-specific ---->
/ back door \
serial port -> moused ---> /dev/sysmouse -> X11
This having-to-change-the-console-driver to extend the sysmouse protocol
crossed several cleaner design options off my list at the start.
Why should the console driver have any special status? Just another mouse
client, right?
Randall
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