Re: [PATCH] PS/2 mouse rate setting

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Overall as KVM user I must say I'm not very happy with the 2.6 mouse
> driver. 2.4 pretty much worked out of the box, but 2.6 needs
> lots of strange options (psmouse_noext, psmouse_rate=80) 
> because it does things very differently out of the box.

I agree. The keyboard driver has also deteriorated, I think. 

I'd suggest we _not_ set the rate by default at all (and let the default
thing just happen). And only set the rate if the user _asks_ for it with
your setup thing. Mind sending me that kind of patch?

		Linus

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