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

[Ian Dowse]

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

From: Ian Dowse <iedowse at maths.tcd.ie>
To: Anish Mistry <mistry.7 at osu.edu>,
	Matt Wright <matt at consultmatt.co.uk>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/70607: [patch] Add Support for USB Microsoft Intellimouse (possibly others) 
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 01:41:26 +0000

 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