From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 15 19:21: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.128.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE1B37B412 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 19:21:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from nantai.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp by nasu.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.11.2/1.1.29.3/26Jan01-1134AM) id f7G2KJc296910; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:20:19 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp by nantai.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.11.2/1.1.29.3/30Jan01-0241PM) id f7G2KIK59773; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:20:18 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:K23ZZ4XmjhGpCGo7c9cJopsn8eDD7HFp@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.43.7]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W/zodiac-May2000) with ESMTP id LAA08385; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:29:56 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200108160229.LAA08385@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: psmintr: out of sync (was: Re: FreeBSD's aggressive keyboard probe/attach) In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2001 10:01:28 -0400." <200108151401.f7FE1S069062@whizzo.transsys.com> References: <200108150924.SAA06230@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> <200108151401.f7FE1S069062@whizzo.transsys.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:29:55 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Does it make sense to have a timeout (or perhaps just timestamps) in the >driver, so that after some period of inactivity, you "know" that the >next byte from the moust is the first of a multi-byte message? > >louie I haven't thought about this. Yes, it may be possible. But, when the mouse is moving rather fast, we may get continues flow of packets and this technic may not work... I will invesitgate and experiment with your idea. Thanks. Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message