Re: Problem report: 2.6.12-rc4 ps2 keyboard being misdetected as /dev/input/mouse0

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > >>I just updated to 2.6.12-rc4 and now /dev/input/mouse0 seems to be my ps2
> > >>keyboard.
> > >>
> > >Please use /dev/input/mice for accessing your mouse.
> > >
> > 
> > One possibly interesting mouse issue in 2.6.12-rc[1..4] is that when 
> > using /dev/psaux, I have found that my mouse cursor under GPM seems to 
> > be triggered into un-hiding when I issue some random number of 
> > non-hiding key-down events.  That is, press and release the keyboard 
> > shift key say 3 or 5 or 10 times, and the console mouse cursor will 
> > appear, just as if the mouse had been moved.  This bug is not in 2.6.11 
> > (nor Alan's 2.6.11-ac7, fwiw).
> > 
> 
> This is caused by atkbd's scrolling support + GPM not expecting to see a
> 0-motion packets from devices... I'd say we need to fix GPM not to set
> GPM_MOVE in these cases; I have looked into adjusting mousedev but it is
> too ugly for words to suppress them there.
> 
> Although... maybe the patch below is not too ugly.

Looks pretty much okay to me...
								Pavel
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