Subject: Re: Mouse console support
To: Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@mogua.com>
From: R. C. Dowdeswell <elric@mabelode.imrryr.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/08/2002 13:41:14
On 718115075 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
Bang Jun-Young wrote:
>
>On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 07:30:40PM +0100, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>> I feel that the general archtecture of the OpenBSD mouse stuff is
>> questionable.  They have decided to have both userland and
>> kernel stuff.  Fair enough, but once you have a userland daemon
>> I would expect that you put as much there as possible.  I got the
>> impression that the OpenBSD code had too much in the kernel (like
>> code to decide about what you are selecting).
>> Furthermore, it seems that this addition requires some addition to
>> every machine dependent wscons driver.  This is really a bad design.
>> Maybe wscons is designed that way, if it is, it should be changed
>> so that things like wsmoused can be added without MD code.
>
>I agree with you. Adding (*getchar)() to every underlying MD driver
>is a bad idea. That's what I missed previously. *-) 

And not even actually possible.  :-)

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