Kudzu and automatic detection

[Per Bjornsson]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:32 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> To really speed things up, all you have to declare is that all serial
> mice must be manually configured... 

So maybe it's actually time to at least default to ignoring certain
types of legacy hardware by default? Pretty much no new user is going to
have a serial mouse anyways, and if the serial mouse probing could be
switchable by poking a parameter in /etc/sysconfig/kudzu the people who
still have such devices can rather easily get them detected. Now, in th
that file I can only find the parameter "SAFE" which the comment says
disables serial mouse, monitor DDC and PS/2 port probing.

Is there any simple way to dump only serial mouse probing while keeping
the probes for monitors and PS/2 keyboards and mice? Or could such a
switch be implemented reasonably easily? The latter devices aren't
exactly unusual yet, even though the PS/2 bus might be considered
"legacy"...

/Per

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Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University