Generic 'input device' layer

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20041112074922.GA727 at loge.nixsys.be>, Philip Paeps writes:

>I've been spending the last few weeks writing and hacking touchscreen drivers
>in the Linux kernel for one of my clients.  Thanks to the simple 'input core'
>framework, this was pretty easy to do.  It wasn't fun, but it was easy.
>
>Trying to port these drivers to FreeBSD is a lot more painful than it should
>be, and I'm finding myself duplicating heaps of code (translating absolute
>coordinates to dx/dy motions, mapping buttons, etc).
>
>Has anyone else tried to write something like 'input core' for FreeBSD?  A
>quick Google doesn't turn up anything of particular interest.
>
>Basically, I'm looking for a way to get from hardware events to something
>syscons will understand, without having to do all sorts of really disgusting
>magic in sys/isa/psm.c or usr.sbin/moused/moused.c.
>
>If no one else is working on this, I'd like to solicit ideas for what others
>would like this interface to look like, and I'll go and write it myself :-)

Well, I think that somebody tried something of the kind, but after
I spent a day in syscons I can say that it wasn't a success.

If you think you can improve on the tangled mess we have there now,
I think it would be a great thing.

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