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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 2004 16:13:53 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mouse.h src/sys/dev/usb ums.c usbhid.h
Message-ID:  <41BCDEC1.4000009@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041212142640.GF68019@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
References:  <20041212133752.GE68019@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <200412121411.aa89799@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <20041212142640.GF68019@tuatara.fishballoon.org>

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Scott Mitchell wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 02:11:22PM +0000, Ian Dowse wrote:
> 
>>In message <20041212133752.GE68019@tuatara.fishballoon.org>, Scott Mitchell wri
>>tes:
>>
>>>On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 12:23:05PM +0000, Ceri Davies wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 10:39:10PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Add support for USB Microsoft Intellimouse
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> PR:             kern/70607
>>>>>> Submitted by:   Matt Wright <matt@consultmatt.co.uk>
>>>>>> MFC after:      1 week
>>>>>
>>>>>What 'support' does this add?
>>>>
>>>>They have another axis on the wheel: you can tilt it from left to right.
>>>>
>>>>Ceri
>>>
>>>Apart from that, the device in question (wireless Intellimouse 2.0) didn't
>>>work as any kind of mouse without this patch.
>>>
>>>	Scott
>>
>>As pointed out in the PR though, it doesn't seem necessary to change
>>struct mousestatus and the MOUSE_GETSTATUS ioctl API just to make
>>the device work. All other mouse drivers in the tree will need to
>>be updated to initialise the new `dt' field. There's also one part
>>of the patch that looks as if it could easily break other devices:
> 
> 
> Ahhh, my bad.  I'd read the PR and thought it was the last version
> mentioned by marko@ (without the mousestatus change) that had been
> committed.  Although now that I look a bit closer I can't actually find
> that version anywhere.
> 
> I'll shut up now.
> 
> 	Scott
> 

uh my bad.. I THOUGHT I had committed the last version, as I got it from
the URL he supplied as being the last one..
I'll look around to see if there is a newer one, or try fix this one..



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