linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] input: map BTN_FORWARD to button 2 in mousedev

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Date:	Mon, 6 Nov 2006 17:48:20 -0500
From:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@...ightbb.com>
To:	"Németh Márton" <nm127@...email.hu>
Cc:	linux-input@...ey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: map BTN_FORWARD to button 2 in mousedev

On 11/5/06, Németh Márton <nm127@...email.hu> wrote:
> From: Márton Németh <nm127@...email.hu>
>
> In mousedev the BTN_LEFT and BTN_FORWARD were mapped to mouse button 0, causing
> that the user space program cannot distinguish between them through /dev/input/mice.
> The BTN_FORWARD is currently used in the synaptics.c, logips2pp.c and in alps.c. All
> mice have BTN_LEFT, but not all have BTN_MIDDLE (e.g. Clevo D410J laptop). Mapping
> BTN_FORWARD to mouse button 2 makes the BTN_FORWARD button useful on the mentioned
> laptop.
>

I'd rather not touch mappings in legacy mousedev driver. I believe
both synaptics and evdev X drivers will correctly recognize
BTN_FORWARD, is there any reason you are not using them?

-- 
Dmitry
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