[gpm]Re: report

[Alessandro Rubini]

>> They ought to
>> _remove_ selection stuff from TIOCLINUX instead, and gpm should become
>> a user-space tool with no kernel support at all (in addition to
>> /dev/vcs stuff, obviously).
> 
> This would at least help us using the buffer.

Actually, you don't need to wait for the feature to be removed if you
think you don't want the feature. You can just stop using it. Or am
I missing something?

> I didn't really mean they implement gpm, but mice drivers.

To my knowledge (not being a 2.5 user, yet), the kernel does what
it ought to do with usb stuff. Serial and ps2 is passed to user space
as usual. And, as far as I understood, USB protocols are pretty
standardized, so the mess we have with serial protocols doesn't exist
at all in kernel space.  I may be wrong, though.

> (public pgp key: ftp.schottelius.org/pub/familiy/nico/pgp-key)

didn't schottelius.org die?

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