On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 09:10:11PM +0200, Lauri Kasanen wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jan 2016 10:30:08 -0800 > Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Although we will make vmmouse work with /dev/input/mice, could you > > > > please tell TinyCore that 90s are calling and they want their mouse > > > > technology back? And tell them to switch to switch to evdev X driver. > > > > > > TinyCore sends their regards, and tells they will consider evdev when > > > Xorg + evdev + paraphelia can total less than 650kb. > > > > I do not think you are doing your users any favors by limiting them to > > PS/2 emulation. For desktops, unless they only use basic mice mousedev > > emulation does not work well for neither touchpads, nor tablets, nor > > touchscreens. And for appliances you do not need mouse at all. Maybe if > > you targeting kiosks with limited UI it will work for a bit. I wonder > > how long Xorg will be keeping lights on for mouse_drv. > > > > I am tempted to deprecate mousedev and maybe joydev as well. They were > > supposed to fill the gap between then current applications and kernel, > > but that was 10+ years ago. > > Hi, > > It's a choice we leave up to the users. The majority uses normal > desktops with normal mice, touch screens and tablets tend to be a > rarity in our userbase. So we can serve the majority without the bloat > of Xorg, but those who need it can install it. So people who do not need Xorg do not need the mouse either, right? I am still confused who your target user base is. > > That's why I was asking for a runtime way - the default should work, > but so should VMWare's nicer mouse integration when Xorg is installed. > That concern was resolved with the statement the older support is not > being considered for removal. The original issue will be solved by > disabling VMMOUSE in our kernel. I guess you can disable this (bit then you need to carry Xorg vmmouse driver), but then you'll still have to pay the piper once Xorg drops root support and X vmmouse driver will not be able to access the hypervisor port. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
