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

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

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

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/55103: /dev/wsmouse returns EINVAL
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 01:45:10 +0200

 On Fri, Apr 03, 2020 at 08:04:56AM +1100, matthew green wrote:
 > the problem is that in the past cat and hexdump were
 > useful and usable as "clients".  that no longer works,
 > because without the compat code available, there is no
 > way, without setting the version, to access these nodes,
 > which makes the cat/hexdump mehtods of debugging not work.
 
 Isn't (for manual debugging / hexdump) the version of the protocol
 mostly irrelevant, so Jaromir's suggestion should work w/o the sysctl?
 
 The human reader of the hexdump would need to understand the version
 still, but it is quite easy to guess (both from the dump and the kernel
 version).
 
 Martin