Re: 2.6.11-mm3 mouse oddity

[Andrew Morton]

Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:25:12 +0100, Helge Hafting
> <helge.hafting@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 2.6.11-mm1 and earlier: mouse appear as /dev/input/mouse0
> > 2.6.11-mm3: mouse appear as /dev/input/mouse1
> > 
> > No big problem, one change to xorg.conf and I got the mouse back.
> > I guess it wasn't supposed to change like that though?
> >
> 
> Vojtech activated scroll handling in keyboard code by default so now
> your keyboard is mapped to the mouse0 and the mouse moved to mouse1.

We cannot ship a kernel with this change, surely?  Our users would come
hunting for us with pitchforks.

> Vojtech, is is possible to detect whether a keyboard has scroll
> wheel(s) by its ID?

What sort of keyboard has a scroll wheel??

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