Re: Patches for 2.4.0-test7

Michael Schmitz writes:

That would have been me - I still claim that keeping adbmouse working for
backwards compatibility would be a good thing, but my word doesn't carry
much weight.

The adbmouse driver only relies on the keyboard driver for mouse button
emulation. At least in 2.2.17, it won't interfere with the new input code,
I haven't tried 2.4.0 yet.

The way it is at the moment in the linuxppc_2_3 bk tree and in my
rsync tree, you have 3 choices:

1. use mac_keyb.c/adbmouse.c and don't have the input layer at all
2. use the input layer for USB devices and mac_keyb.c/adbmouse.c for
   ADB keyboard and mouse
3. use the input layer for both USB and ADB devices.

The adbmouse driver references some external variables which are
declared in mac_keyb.c.  If there is really a need to have adbmouse.c
in the system without mac_keyb.c, we can probably work out a way to
allow that, but I don't see the need.

Paul.

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