From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@insightbb.com>
To: "Németh Márton" <nm127@freemail.hu>
Cc: linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: map BTN_FORWARD to button 2 in mousedev
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 17:48:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d120d5000611061448p73bcfec5xb91bb4f454312eb9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <454DCDBC.7060201@freemail.hu>
On 11/5/06, Németh Márton <nm127@freemail.hu> wrote:
> From: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
>
> In mousedev the BTN_LEFT and BTN_FORWARD were mapped to mouse button 0, causing
> that the user space program cannot distinguish between them through /dev/input/mice.
> The BTN_FORWARD is currently used in the synaptics.c, logips2pp.c and in alps.c. All
> mice have BTN_LEFT, but not all have BTN_MIDDLE (e.g. Clevo D410J laptop). Mapping
> BTN_FORWARD to mouse button 2 makes the BTN_FORWARD button useful on the mentioned
> laptop.
>
I'd rather not touch mappings in legacy mousedev driver. I believe
both synaptics and evdev X drivers will correctly recognize
BTN_FORWARD, is there any reason you are not using them?
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-06 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-05 11:40 Németh Márton
2006-11-06 22:48 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2006-11-07 8:15 ` Németh Márton
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