Re: kern/55103: /dev/wsmouse returns EINVAL

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/55103; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/55103: /dev/wsmouse returns EINVAL
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 06:07:42 -0700 (PDT)

 On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, Michael van Elst wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/55103; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
 > To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: kern/55103: /dev/wsmouse returns EINVAL
 > Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 12:46:20 -0000 (UTC)
 >
 > paul%whooppee.com@localhost (Paul Goyette) writes:
 >
 > >As I see it, there are three reasonable paths forward to resolve this
 > >issue:
 >
 > >1. Identify and update the caller(s) of this protocol (possibly with
 > >    a sysctl(8) variable to control selection of the protocol), or
 >
 > There are no callers that need updating or that even could be updated.
 
 What controls the *ev argument passed to wsevent_copyout_events() via
 wsevent_read()?
 
 > And mandating an optional compat mode for some platforms is nonsense.
 
 There is no ""... for some platforms..." intended in my reply.  ALL
 platforms have the same requirement WRT needing the compat_50 module,
 and any platform on which you would like the "old protocol" to work
 would need the module, either built-in or modload(8)ed.
 
 
 
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