[PATCH] kbdmux(4) update

[Markus Brueffer]

Am Sunday 26 February 2006 01:02 schrieb Maksim Yevmenkin:
> > Actually I meant "ps/2 keyboard and a bluetooth keyboard", but I did a
> > little bit of further testing and now have:
> >
> >  - one Logitech ps/2 mouse
> >  - one Logitech MX1000 bluetooth mouse
> >  - two Logitech MX900 bluetooth mice
> >  - one Cherry ps/2 keyboard
> >  - one Logitech MX5000 bluetooth keyboard
> >
> > working in parallel flawlessly :) I would say: Awesome work Maksim!
>
> did you have all these things connected at once? :) if so, then this is
> quite an impressive collections :)

Yep. Only sideeffect was that my girlfriend was looking a bit strangly when 
she watched me working with 2 keyboards and 4 mice at once :)

> please give yourself a credit too. you picked up where i left with 
> bthidd(8), found and fixed silly typos etc. thank you for doing this.

I hope to improve bthidd further in the near future. First thing will be a 
clean way to handle the button problem (2 button mice vs. 3 button mice) and 
the support for tilt wheels.

> >>>Btw: I'm getting LORs from vkbd(4) when working with the bluetooth
> >>>keyboard (6-STABLE from about an hour ago with the kndmux patch):
> >>
> >>thanks for reporting this. it has nothing to do with the kdbmux(4)
> >>patch. it has been there for quite a long time. i will fix it.
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> could you please give a try to the following vkbd(4) patch?
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~emax/vkbd.c.diff.txt
>
> this patch essentially removes custom locking from the vkbd(4) and makes
> it rely on Giant mutex (just like the rest of keyboard drivers and
> syscons(4) do).

The patch works great. No more LORs here.

Thanks,

Markus

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