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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Lauri Kasanen <cand@gmx.com>
Cc: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MOUSE_PS2_VMMOUSE and input/mice
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 10:30:08 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160116183008.GB9203@dtor-ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160116105735.5c659e05.cand@gmx.com>

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 10:57:35AM +0200, Lauri Kasanen wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 09:50:40 -0800
> Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Although we will make vmmouse work with /dev/input/mice, could you
> > please tell TinyCore that 90s are calling and they want their mouse
> > technology back? And tell them to switch to switch to evdev X driver.
> 
> TinyCore sends their regards, and tells they will consider evdev when
> Xorg + evdev + paraphelia can total less than 650kb.

I do not think you are doing your users any favors by limiting them to
PS/2 emulation. For desktops, unless they only use basic mice mousedev
emulation does not work well for neither touchpads, nor tablets, nor
touchscreens.  And for appliances you do not need mouse at all. Maybe if
you targeting kiosks with limited UI it will work for a bit. I wonder
how long Xorg will be keeping lights on for mouse_drv.

I am tempted to deprecate mousedev and maybe joydev as well. They were
supposed to fill the gap between then current applications and kernel,
but that was 10+ years ago.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-16 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-15 10:39 MOUSE_PS2_VMMOUSE and input/mice Lauri Kasanen
2016-01-15 11:08 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-01-15 11:23   ` Lauri Kasanen
2016-01-15 15:45     ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-01-15 17:50       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-01-15 18:22         ` Thomas Hellstrom
2016-01-16 15:39           ` Lauri Kasanen
2016-01-16 18:16             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-01-18  8:30               ` Lauri Kasanen
2016-01-16  8:57         ` Lauri Kasanen
2016-01-16 18:30           ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2016-01-16 19:10             ` Lauri Kasanen
2016-01-16 19:38               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2016-01-17  9:32                 ` Lauri Kasanen

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