Keeping /dev/input/mice around?

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 07:44:21AM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Daniel Stone">
> > the easiest way would really be to have udev/the kernel always have a
> > dummy mouse around.
> 
> So I noticed that after plugging a mouse in and removing it again,
> /dev/input/mice stays. I don't know if we can rely on that in the future
> (unplugging a mouse might unhotplug /dev/input/mice), but it seems like a
> pretty good bet for making this 'just work'.
> 
> How would we keep it around?

Create a really cheesy dummy input device that registers once as a
mouse, but never does any actual input?

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
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