Re: [PATCH] Synaptics: support for pass-through port (stick)

Dmitry Torokhov (dtor_core@ameritech.net)
Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:31:15 -0500


On Monday 07 July 2003 07:09 am, Peter Berg Larsen wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Peter Berg Larsen wrote:
>
> Replying to myself.
>
> > > button reporting (only left and right as I am not sure to which buttons
> > > up/down should be mapped),
> >
> > hmm. You dont know what the guest protocol, so you can't just | the
> > button information. However, reallity is that this will work for nearly
> > anybody now.
>
> This is not the greatest idea as the guest sometimes does not recieve the
> button release. This is bad only if the userdriver multiplex the
> micebuttons from different mice, because it would then seem as the user
> holds the button down.
>

So should we just get rid of all button multiplexing in kernel module and
leave it to the userland (gpm/XFree)? Not trying to bail out, just want to
find the best solution...

Dmitry
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