Re: [RFC, PATCH] horizontal mouse wheel in mousedrv

Hi Pierre,

On Dec 25, 2007 10:49 AM, Pierre Ossman [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Pierre Ossman <redacted>

Support the horizontal wheel present on many mice via the
/dev/input/mice device by using the somewhat odd protocol extension
of sending double wheel movements for the extra wheel.

This is of course a rather error prone protocol extension, but it is
found in some hardware and works well enough in practice. It is also
the only horizontal wheel protocol supported by Xorg's mouse driver.

I'd rather not change the legacy mousedev driver. The extension is
rather non-standard and there is no telling what applications might
break. Please use evdev driver, it should support horizontal scrolling
AFAIK.

-- 
Dmitry