[PATCH] Add "input.mouse" capability to VMware's absolute USB mouse

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Oct 21 18:12:03 PDT 2008


On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 06:07:53PM -0700, Philip Langdale wrote:
> I guess it's worth pointing out that it's technically not VMware specific -
> there are other devices out there that look like non-touch absolute devices;
> I've seen discussion about an HP ILO device that presents its mouse input in
> the same way.

Ok. I'm going to work on the assumption that anything that's actually a 
mouse will have a left mouse button, and with luck we'll be safe with 
that. Ideally the kernel would expose the device type and we could stop 
implementing the checking in two locations, but that's work for another 
day.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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