Re: Mouse and keyboard drivers in the Linux Kernel?

Pavel Machek (pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Mon, 24 May 1999 10:43:26 +0200


Hi!

> > There is no docs yet, that'll come soon. Just a kernel patch:
> >
> > ftp://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/pub/linux/input/2.3.3-input-34.gz
> >
> > The patch currently includes not only the generic input code, but
> > also patches to the virtual console code to allow multihead, and
> > clean up and modularization patches to the USB code.
>
> Cool, I will try it out. How long before this thing becomes stable
> and potentially becomes a standard part of the Linux kernel? Or is
> there resistance to including this code in the kernel?

We believe it should be merged during 2.3 cycle. New input handling is
just _much_ better.

> I would like to add support for using this interface in our
> libraries, so that if the patch is in the kernel we will use it,
> otherwise we will fall back on the existing ghastly hacks that we
> already have in the MGL.

That seems like reasonable solution,
Pavel

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