I wanna write a driver!

[Jesse M. <je...@cs...>]

Hello All,

I am taking an Open Source Development class this summer. I would really
like to get some device driver programming experience under my belt.
Initially, I was thinking about writing a driver for an unsupported
mouse... This weekend I went and bought a Logitech V500 (solid state
scroll up, down, left and right) thinking that it wouldn't work in
Linux. Well, it does work except for the left and right scroll.

So, that leads me to a couple of questions:

a. If a mouse is not fully supported in Linux, is that grounds to write
a new driver or is it better to expand an existing driver?

b. Is there a list of mice and or keyboards that need to have drivers
written (or to be migrated from the 2.4 style of doing things)?

c. Should I just forget about writing a mouse driver and work on
something else that is similar in scope and would be helpful to you all?

Thanks

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Jesse Millan
CNS Unix Team
Portland State University
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