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> Attached is a patch that takes this functionality from XFree86 and
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> integrates it into gpm. And adds a mouse type specifically for this
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> auto detection.
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I though a while about this, and I'd like to do it in another way, to
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avoid clubbering the mouse table every so often.
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What I'd like to have is a "pnp.c" file, that includes the probing
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functions as well as the table of pnp mouse types. Similarly to
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synaptics and twiddler support, then, the functions in mice.c can call
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the ones defined in pnp.c.
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The advantage of this is that there is no need to change the mouse
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type data structure, and no need to add ID's of mice to the table of
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types, which will quickly become exceedingly long. Moreover, having
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the table of pnp ID's as an external object allows to export it to an
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external text file, so that adding support for a new mouse type (a pnp
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one) would be trivial: no more "plese try this patch, recompile and
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tell us if it works" to ask to users, just "pleas add this line to
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/etc/gpm-pnp.conf and try again".
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/alessandro
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