[openbeos] Re: device driver question

"Bruno van Dooren" <bruno_van_dooren@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> now assume that the mouse was not plugged in at boot time (no 
> devices. init_hardware fails),
> i see this and i plug it in after boot time.
> how can i let the system know that it should try to init_hardware and 
> load the driver?
> 
> i could manually remove the driver and drop it again in the /bin 
> folder, but that is soooo ugly.
> there has to be some way to do this right?

Yes and no - there is the "rescan" command (shell) which triggers a 
reloading of your driver, i.e.:
$ rescan kb_mouse

Since both, the keyboard and the mouse, are connected via PS/2, and are 
therefore using the PS/2 protocol, BeOS has one driver to rule them 
all. I don't know if you plan to duplicate this, though, it wouldn't be 
needed for compatibility (and if you did, a name like "keyboard_mouse" 
would be preferable :-)).

Adios...
   Axel.

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