Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 13:02:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, nirva@ishiboo.com, hasty@netcom.com, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com Subject: Re: X-10 Mouse Remote patch Message-ID: <199806191102.NAA00901@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <19980619064232.A9735@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Jun 19, 98 06:42:32 am"
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In reply to Randall Hopper who wrote:
> Sren Schmidt:
> |Yep it will endeed, this is the way to do it guys, the current hacks
> |to moused are, well, nicely put, GROSS!!
> ...
> |Guys you need to do a little design now and then, not all these
> |quick hacks, if not FreeBSD will end up being like the L word :)
>
> Soren, you need to relax a little or just get in there and do it yourself.
> Mike Smith and I did talk about the design for this beforehand.
I have plenty on my plate to let you guys have an OS you can molest :)
I'm pretty sure Mike didn't suggest you misuse moused like this, or
he has been unaware of your intentions...
> Personally, I'm in favor of a disable-mouse option to moused over this
> device-specific X10-daemon thing that we're talking about feeding moused.
> moused currently deals with serial tty devices. If we end up with:
>
> filtered mouse events
> N device-specific devices ----------------------> moused
>
> We've got moused knowing how to read a bunch of device-type-specific inputs
> (pipes/sockets/ttys/etc.) So have we really generalized moused? Nope.
You got me wrong here, moused should have no pipes/sockets/etc
interfaces, it shall have exactly what it needs and that is the
device/devices of the mouse hw. If you need a deamon for a new
device (and I see a X10-remote-anything as a new device) you
should write one, not try to bend an old one into shape...
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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