Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 07:24:45 -0600 From: Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: devfs persistence Message-ID: <19980217072445.51226@gaffaneys.com> In-Reply-To: <199802171057.DAA10576@usr07.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 10:57:48AM %2B0000 References: <17495.887701138@verdi.nethelp.no> <199802171057.DAA10576@usr07.primenet.com>
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On Tue, Feb 17, 1998 at 10:57:48AM +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > > - ln -s cuaa0 mouse > This is somewhat non-sensical as well. The mouse should use a protocol > virtualizer so that a /dev/mouse is reexported, and it doesn't matter > what your physical mouse hardware is, the thing looks like a mousesystems > (or other) mouse, always, so that programs don't have to care about this. > I think your problem is that the current mouse interface is so primitive. Actually, as long as daemons can make entries for devfs (in this case, moused), everything would make sense again. -- Zach Heilig -- zach@gaffaneys.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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