Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-25,: Re: uniform input device packets?

# Re: uniform input device packets?

Adam D. Bradley (artdodge@cs.bu.edu)
Tue, 23 Jun 1998 16:54:18 -0400 (EDT)

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On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:06:53PM -0700, David Lang wrote:
>
> > simplified as mentiond below I think this would also give us an easy hook to use
> > with USB devices. If the program is accepting input and all the devices send the
> > codes (I don't know if we really need the timestamp) the program would then be
> > able to handle them all appropriatly.
>
> Yes; USB input device support could follow fairly easily then. However, USB in
> itself can do more than just input devices.

Methinks this thing is starting to sound a little bit like the
console-handling part of EvStack as proposed by the GGI folk ...
vaguely speaking, the idea is to provide a 'unified console object'
which delivers a stream of event messages to a process, those events
coming from a set of input devices which are "related to" the console
(keyboard, mouse, joystick, light pen, trackball, retinal orientation
detector, etc). Am I wrong?

Adam

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