From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 19 04:02:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA16285 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 04:02:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA16277; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 04:02:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA00901; Fri, 19 Jun 1998 13:02:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199806191102.NAA00901@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: X-10 Mouse Remote patch In-Reply-To: <19980619064232.A9735@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Jun 19, 98 06:42:32 am" To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 13:02:30 +0200 (CEST) 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 From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message