Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 13:03:55 +0000 | From | Johan Myréen <> | Subject | Re: ISSUE: psaux does not load in 2.2.0pre6 |
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David Woodhouse wrote:
> Or even better, to have the driver automatically notice when a mouse is > plugged in, without intervention from the user at all. P'raps it should scan > for a mouse whenever /dev/psaux is opened when a mouse isn't currently thought > to be attached?
Note that this can be done in user space: the only way the mouse communicates with the host is by sending and receiving bytes on the wire. For that you have the write() and read() calls.
Compare to a serial port: surely you don't expect the serial driver to automatically detect when a mouse or a modem is hot-plugged into a serial port?
Besides, I don't think the PS/2 mouse was intended to be hot-pluggable. There have been reports of fried ports on this list.
Johan Myréen jem@iki.fi
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