I believe the point is to have such a driver in the vanilla kernel, not to adopt a third-party driver. Is this hardware available anywhere besides thrift stores? Sending from a mobile, pardon my terseness. ~ C. <div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 27, 2011 4:01 PM, "Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski" <<a href="mailto:curious@bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl">curious@bwv190.internetdsl.tpnet.pl</a>> wrote: >> the "standard" is pretty much defined by what the driver can take. If it >> can't parse the protocol then the device is rather useless anyway. >> but really, writing a serial kernel driver is rather trivial and has a >> higher chance of actually working long-term than dragging the old input >> drivers along. > > as long as it'll be maintained, well written, and pulled into mainline at > all ;) > > now i also realized that as fpit driver uses just serial port, > it could be perhaps just translated in software , and simple userspace > translator similiar to how ppl used joysticks in thinkpads (i recall it > was sth like gpm relay) could be used . this way relatively simple code > would be created requiring no periodic mainteance, interfacing with more > 'standard' X input driver. > > then one of obstacles here is that fpit has no gpm driver ;) > but it's just general idea for possibly making such devices least > mainteance-labour consuming in future and not requirin destabilising whole > system by introducing third party kernel drivers written by lazy and > unqualified ppl ;) > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > <a href="mailto:xorg@lists.freedesktop.org">xorg@lists.freedesktop.org</a>: X.Org support > Archives: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg</a> > Info: <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg</a> > Your subscription address: <a href="mailto:mostawesomedude@gmail.com">mostawesomedude@gmail.com</a> </div>