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- From: jem@snakemail.hut.fi (Johan Myreen)
- Subject: Re: First Release of the Linux Device List
- In-Reply-To: rick@ee.uwm.edu's message of 17 Nov 1992 16:00:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <JEM.92Nov23205347@lk-hp-6.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- Date: 23 Nov 92 18:53:47 GMT
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- >Summary: LOOK IT OVER! COMMENTS PLEASE!
-
- > The Linux Device List
-
- >10. Bus Mouse (character) .. bm, psaux (mouse)
- > (If I recall, X Windows requires that
- > /dev/mouse be linked to one of these...)
-
- No, X is happy using any name. MGR requires /dev/mouse (if I recall :-)
-
- > 0. /dev/bm: (Logitec?) bus mouse
- > 1. /dev/psaux: PS/2 mouse port
- > 2. /dev/bm: MicroSoft bus mouse
- > 3. /dev/bm: ATI XL bus mouse
-
- Should all the busmice be called /dev/bm? I think there should be a
- 1:1 correspondence between a driver and a name. The minor number
- identifies the device and the entry in /dev gives it a name by which
- user programs can access it.
-
- It would also help avoid some confusion around bus mice if you could
- tell what kind of bus mouse the dev file is for, not just 'bm'. (Just
- like we say /dev/hda, /dev/sda, etc...)
-
- How about /dev/logibm, /dev/inportm, /dev/atibm?
-
- Just my opinion...
-
- (By the way, the PS/2 mouse is not a bus mouse. It is... well, it's a
- PS/2 mouse!)
-
- --
- Johan Myreen
- jem@cs.hut.fi
-