On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 10:56:13AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > According to Wikipedia, the PS/2 connection was designed in 1987 > and the first release of the Linux kernel was in 1991. Therefore > "/dev/psaux" could have appeared in Unix before it appeared in > Linux. Whether the first appearance was in Unix or Linux, I would > have expected the name to be /dev/ps2 rather than /dev/psaux.
People would have asked about /dev/ps0 and /dev/ps1. As it is, motherboards often have one or two ps/2 ports, and they may or may not be different -- some will only take mice, some will only take keyboards, some don't care -- there is no way that I am aware of to differentiate between them from an end-user view. -dsr- -- http://randomstring.org/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't fight for freedom by taking away rights. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130430213722.gw27...@randomstring.org
