Keeping /dev/input/mice around?

Jeff Waugh jdub at perkypants.org
Wed Sep 1 16:44:21 CDT 2004


<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?

- Jeff

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