kern/70607: [patch] Add Support for USB Microsoft Intellimouse (possibly others)

[Matt Wright]

The following reply was made to PR kern/70607; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matt Wright <matt at consultmatt.co.uk>
To: Ian Dowse <iedowse at maths.tcd.ie>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org, Anish Mistry <mistry.7 at osu.edu>
Subject: Re: kern/70607: [patch] Add Support for USB Microsoft Intellimouse (possibly others) 
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 01:43:32 +0000

 Hi,
 
 Not as far as I'm aware. I carried it over from Anish's patch. If he 
 hasn't got a reason for keeping it I don't either.
 
 Matt
 
 On 9 Nov 2004, at 01:41, Ian Dowse wrote:
 
 > In message <200411082140.iA8LeXQs087630 at freefall.freebsd.org>, Anish 
 > Mistry wri
 >> Excellent work Matt.  I've just tested it with my wired Intellimouse, 
 >> and
 >> it works great on my laptop (6-CURRENT).  It didn't work on my 
 >> desktop,
 >> but I think the USB controller is flaky, ums just gets 1 interrupt 
 >> then
 >> gets stuck, but my other USB mice still worked fine, so no 
 >> regressions.
 > ...
 >> Could a committer (Ian?) take a look at this a possibly merge it?
 >
 > Sure, but one question about the patch: is it necessary to add the
 > new field to the mousestatus structure, i.e. is there any userland
 > code that needs the new `dt' field from the MOUSE_GETSTATUS ioctl?
 > If not, it would be better to avoid having to recompile any existing
 > applications that may use the MOUSE_GETSTATUS ioctl. Adding the new
 > field would also require modifying all the other mouse drivers
 > (sysmouse, mse, psm, pc98/mse) to initialise `dt'.
 >
 > Ian
 >