From: dboese@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Darcy Boese) Subject: Bus Mice Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 01:29:05 GMT
I suppose one feature of Linux that should be implemented is a way to
interchangably use bus mice or serial mice without needing to recompile
the whole kernel. The one machine I put Linux on at school had an ATI
bus mouse which wouldn't work, and there was not enough room left on the
drive after installing to recompile the kernel.
Perhaps a 'simple' patch routine to replace the mouse parts of the
kernel with a different set of routines? This would probably require
that the serial routines be filled with just enough blank space to leave
room to attach the bus mice code in. (or vice versa)
Just a thought...