Mouse driver for Linux event interface

[Matthias Grimrath]

On Wednesday 29 September 2004 19:05, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 16:53 +0200, Matthias Grimrath wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have written a driver that uses the /dev/input/eventXX Linux
> > interface to obtain input events from a USB mouse. My motivation
> > was to be able to use all 10 buttons + wheel that my shiny new
> > mouse offers :-)
>
> Is this the correct place to add code that allows a touchpad's left
> side function as a scroll pad?

Both the "official" evdev driver and my implementation basically only 
translate events generated by the kernel into events used inside the 
Xserver. So IMO the kernel should generate wheel events if a touchpad 
offers a side function. But this is really only my opinion.

Matthias Grimrath