Subject: Re: pms0 vs. psm0
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Patrick Hartling <mystify@iastate.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/30/1998 19:08:06
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
} On Sun, 29 Mar 1998 17:25:51 -0600
} Patrick Hartling <mystify@friley63.res.iastate.edu> wrote:
}
} > Hi,
} > When I originally installed NetBSD on my system a couple of months
} > back, I was more than a bit taken aback to discover that the PS/2 mouse
} > device on NetBSD is pms0 rather than psm0 (which is what I am accustomed t
*** o).
} > It's not a big deal, but I am curious about why it is named pms0. Honestl
*** y,
} > it seems a little odd to have a PMS device. ;) Thanks.
}
} The "psm" version is a new version of the PS/2 mouse driver for the
} new wscons console code.
I saw that in a message I read (while catching up on mail) about 2 minutes
after sending my original message. Heh. :)
-Patrick
Patrick L. Hartling | Research Assistant, ICEMT
mystify@iastate.edu | SE Lab - 1117 Black Engineering
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~oz | http://www.icemt.iastate.edu