Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:27:02 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: disable mousepad taps on Dell Inspiron Message-ID: <3A651F16.B83DE07F@math.missouri.edu> References: <3A5FD090.E035557F@math.missouri.edu> <200101150126.KAA00198@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
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Thanks. I appreciate your response. I probably won't see your fine upcoming work for a while because I use Stable. But if people know about my patch and port, they can be steered towards that until your patch makes it into STABLE, and finally into release. Thanks, Stephen Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: > > >I have submitted another PR describing how to do this: > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24299 > > > >I now know quite a few people who would like something like this. > >The old PR I submitted regarding this is now out of date. Could > >someone please commit this (and the required co-PR: > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=20352 ) > >or something like this? > > > >Thanks, Stephen > > Hi, > > We exchanged mails quite a while ago and discussed about your > proposed patch. I am sorry that I haven't written to you since then. > > The reason why I didn't commit your patch straight away at that time > wasn't that I saw problems in your patch, but rather that the psm > driver has gotten so bloat over the years and now have full of > various model-specific code in it. It's getting more and more difficult > to maintain. > > In addition, nowadays there are so many arcane PS/2 mice which require > special attention by the driver on the market. We need to add support > for those mice as well. > > Because of that, I decided to reorganize the psm driver a bit. > I will split the model-specific code from the main body of the driver, > and create a set of sub-drivers each of which will support a specific > PS/2 mouse model. I promise that the TouchPad support will be one of the > first sub-drivers to be added. I am almost there and commit the > new code to the -CURRENT tree in a couple of weeks. > > IMHO, the PS/2 mouse is a dying beast, in that the USB mouse is > the way to go. But, for the time being (well, a couple of years? > three year?), we need to keep the psm driver in good shape. > > Kazu -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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