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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 19:01:58 +0200
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: [driver] New life for Serial mice
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On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 12:31:28PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> hmmm.  I just looked over this, and drivers/char/joystick/ser*.[ch].
> 
> Bad trend.
> 
> Serial needs to be treated just like parport: the basic hardware code,
> then on top of that, a selection of drivers, all peers:  dumb serial
> port, serial mouse, joystick, etc.

Agreed. Completely.

And proposed a couple times before.

But not in my power.

So I used a N_MOUSE line discipline instead
 - the best tap into the serial/tty stack I found.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs