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Date:      Sun, 12 Dec 2004 14:26:40 +0000
From:      Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org>
To:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
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:  <20041212142640.GF68019@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
In-Reply-To: <200412121411.aa89799@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
References:  <20041212133752.GE68019@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <200412121411.aa89799@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>

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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

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