USB HID support for xf86-input-mouse (including digitizers and touchscreens)

[Koop Mast]

On Sat, 2011-07-23 at 22:31 +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Alexander Motin wrote:
> > Looking on xf86-input-mouse, I've found that it includes some code to
> > support USB HID pointing devices directly using libusbhid library. But
> > that code seemed like newer worked (at least on FreeBSD) and is quite
> > limited. Same time that approach would allow us to override different
> > limitation, now imposed by sysmouse protocol. For example, to support
> > absolute coordinates, pressure force, multiple touches, etc. I've made a
> > patch, rewriting it to support wide range of pointing devices. I've
> > tested it with few mouses, digitizer and two touchscreens.
> 
> First, I would like to tell about newer patch version:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~mav/patch-zz-input-mouse9
> 
> Second, I still would like to hear any comments from x11@ people about
> possibility to include this patch to the xf86-input-mouse port. Patch
> should not be invasive for existing users, as most of code it touches
> never worked on FreeBSD before. If with perspective of the port update
> you need patch for the newer driver version, I will gladly do it, it
> should not be difficult.
> 
> Thank you.
> 

Could you regen the patch against xf86-input-mouse 1.7.1? 
And does this work on all FreeBSD versions?

Thanks,

-Koop