On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 02:47:42AM -0500, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote: > This is going to generate spurious events when speaking the EXPS/2 > protocol from unpatched kernel HID layers, specificly > drivers/input/mousedev.c generates the wheel data incorrectly, I have a > patch for that which I'm trying to get accepted upstream. Have you filed a bug against the "kernel" Debian package? Maybe Xu will patch our kernels in the meantime. > I have actual hardware which speaks the protocol in question, in both > one and two wheel versions, and none actually generate anything except > 0x1 and 0xf for the first wheel, the kernel will generate something > other then that, if unpatched, for /very/ rapid wheel movements on > slower systems. > > The problems of that with X and this patch are further reduced by the > fact that ZAxisMapping will, if only given two buttons, map W axis (0x2 > and 0xe) to the same buttons as the z axis, and if it is something other > then those two it will be dropped. ...which should mean that most people using dexconf to generate their XF86Config-4 files shouldnt' see it anyway, right? > I do not expect to see anyone suddenly loosing functionality from this > patch. (=:] Okay. If I get bug reports about spurious events I'll reassign them to "kernel". Thanks for the patch and the explanation. -- G. Branden Robinson | Yesterday upon the stair, Debian GNU/Linux | I met a man who wasn't there. branden@debian.org | He wasn't there again today, http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | I think he's from the CIA.
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