RFC: HAL probing for VMware vmmouse device

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Mon Oct 27 08:40:50 PDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:35:39AM -0700, Philip Langdale wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 
> > No it wasn't, I'm just blind. I think a better way of doing this would
> > be to make the callout conditional on there being a PCI device with the
> > vmware subsystem. Probing for a vmware mouse on every system that has a
> > PS/2 port seems excessive.
> 
> Something more like this?

Yeah, that looks better to me. Do you actually need to do the probing in 
that case, or are there VMWare systems that will expose a PS/2 mouse
port and not allow you to run vmmouse against it?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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