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

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

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
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Subject: Re: kern/55103: /dev/wsmouse returns EINVAL
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 15:27:03 -0000 (UTC)

 uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valery Ushakov) writes:
 
 > let's just declare that beahviour standart, not compat.  fold the
 > "old" code into the main driver and be done with it.
 
 That was one of my first suggestions. And if you avoid pulling in
 a library of 32bit time_t functions, it's 20 lines of code.
 
 > Also, iirc, the old events were exactly aligned in hexdump output,
 > which is nice, so I'd prefer if hexdump output uses the old format :)
 
 On 64bit machines you don't see any difference between old and new
 format until 2038.
 
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