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From(Mike "Ford" Ditto)
DateFri, 26 Jun 98 20:03:33 -0700
SubjectRe: uniform input device packets?
It's time to move this thread to the linux-input mailing list, away from
linux-kernel.

>	 What is I was implementing a multihead solution with 15 heads in 
> once machine or speed, maybe on a multiplayer game?  What about if each 
> person needs two mice for my control scheme?

Presumably there won't be one system-wide event stream containing the
merged events of all users of the multi-user system.  Each "terminal"
(set of display, keyboard, etc.) should have one stream of input events.
Each one should have its "main" pointer device look like "pointer device
#0" or whatever to the apps that run on it.

You don't need to support 100 input sources per head.  Eight or whatever
was proposed will be fine, since 95% of systems will use two sources,
4.99% will use three sources, and the other .01% are beyond the
reasonable scope of such a unification attempt.  Yes, of course those
are fabricated statistics, just like 83.5% of all statistics are.  :-)

					-=] Ford [=-

"The number of Unix installations	(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
has grown to 10, with more expected."	ford@omnicron.com
- The Unix Programmer's Manual,		http://www.omnicron.com/~ford/ford.html
  2nd Edition, June, 1972.

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