Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Mouse minor chaos | Date | Thu, 18 Dec 1997 09:51:45 -0800 (PST) |
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> Would be nice to have that (though probably few people use more than one > mouse). > How does the user know which mouse device corresponds to which mouse? And > would that mean taking mice out of the miscdev major, or reserving a range > of minors?
That would also completely break any mice that didn't have a kernel driver (e.g. serial mice...) as well as kerneld for mice.
Dynamic allocation is nearly always a bad idea. This is what symlinks are for.
-hpa
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