Re: mousedev patch

[James S. <jsi...@tr...>]

> I'd rather not do this yet -- some applications don't support /dev/ts
> properly, and it's extremely useful to be able to use either driver
> with either kind of input device (in the case where one has a system
> with both a mouse and a touchscreen attached).

Which apps? Only X to my knowledge and a few other unknow apps use it. 
In the end apps should be ported over to use the event interface. 

> This will be less acute when a single interface is available which
> provides applications with all available information (such as James's
> suggestion of an evdev mixer which adds a field giving the minor
> number of the evdev device correspending with the source).

This is for /dev/shmiq support on IRIX platforms. BTW it is not a easy
device to work with.