Re: [PATCH] input: map BTN_FORWARD to button 2 in mousedev

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 11/5/06, Németh Márton <nm127@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Márton Németh <nm127@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> In mousedev the BTN_LEFT and BTN_FORWARD were mapped to mouse button 0, causing
> that the user space program cannot distinguish between them through /dev/input/mice.
> The BTN_FORWARD is currently used in the synaptics.c, logips2pp.c and in alps.c. All
> mice have BTN_LEFT, but not all have BTN_MIDDLE (e.g. Clevo D410J laptop). Mapping
> BTN_FORWARD to mouse button 2 makes the BTN_FORWARD button useful on the mentioned
> laptop.

I'd rather not touch mappings in legacy mousedev driver. I believe
both synaptics and evdev X drivers will correctly recognize
BTN_FORWARD, is there any reason you are not using them?

--
Dmitry
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