From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 14 17:19:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241A937B400; Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:19:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:H13Tb0aKUcX1kBRXnMA99AMoiWQ7y3Us@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.11.0/3.7Wpl2) with ESMTP id f0F1IqM00959; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:18:52 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:+reANrE8Ka67rctX4Sfj0gOgYNmEJS/5@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.3+3.2W/3.7W/zodiac-May2000) with ESMTP id KAA00198; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:26:37 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200101150126.KAA00198@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: disable mousepad taps on Dell Inspiron In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:50:40 CST." <3A5FD090.E035557F@math.missouri.edu> References: <3A5FD090.E035557F@math.missouri.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:26:35 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I have submitted another PR describing how to do this: > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24299 > >I now know quite a few people who would like something like this. >The old PR I submitted regarding this is now out of date. Could >someone please commit this (and the required co-PR: >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20352 ) >or something like this? > >Thanks, Stephen Hi, We exchanged mails quite a while ago and discussed about your proposed patch. I am sorry that I haven't written to you since then. The reason why I didn't commit your patch straight away at that time wasn't that I saw problems in your patch, but rather that the psm driver has gotten so bloat over the years and now have full of various model-specific code in it. It's getting more and more difficult to maintain. In addition, nowadays there are so many arcane PS/2 mice which require special attention by the driver on the market. We need to add support for those mice as well. Because of that, I decided to reorganize the psm driver a bit. I will split the model-specific code from the main body of the driver, and create a set of sub-drivers each of which will support a specific PS/2 mouse model. I promise that the TouchPad support will be one of the first sub-drivers to be added. I am almost there and commit the new code to the -CURRENT tree in a couple of weeks. IMHO, the PS/2 mouse is a dying beast, in that the USB mouse is the way to go. But, for the time being (well, a couple of years? three year?), we need to keep the psm driver in good shape. Kazu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message