From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262465AbTEFJRB (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 05:17:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262483AbTEFJRB (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 05:17:01 -0400 Received: from AMontpellier-205-2-1-77.abo.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.48.77]:10489 "EHLO tethys.montpellier.4js.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262465AbTEFJRA (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 05:17:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 11:29:28 +0200 From: wwp To: Hans-Georg Thien <1682-600@onlinehome.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] "Disable Trackpad while typing" on Notebooks withh a PS/2 Trackpad Message-Id: <20030506112928.60306baf.subscript@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <3EB19625.6040904@onlinehome.de> References: <3EB19625.6040904@onlinehome.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Hans-Georg Thien, On Thu, 01 May 2003 23:48:21 +0200 Hans-Georg Thien <1682-600@onlinehome.de> wrote: > Sorry for this long text and my bad english. And please be kind to me - > it is my very first posting to this mailing list ... > > I have written a *very small* patch against the linux 2.4.20 kernel and > I want to submit it now. Would it be possible to enable/disable this feature from userspace using an echo 1 > /proc/blabla, or only using insmod/modprobe -r? Anyway, very good idea! Regards, -- wwp