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From: jkh@morse.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: problems with driver for a DEC pc mouse - help
Date: 11 Mar 1994 13:51:37 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland
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In-reply-to: cogswell@creampie.cs.uoregon.edu's message of 10 Mar 94 16:36:57

In article <COGSWELL.94Mar10163657@creampie.cs.uoregon.edu> cogswell@creampie.cs.uoregon.edu (Bryce Howard Cogswell) writes:
   You have to hack the kernel code.  There is a small test that checks
   if two devices are at the same address and ignores the second if so.
   ...
   BTW: This really belongs in the FAQ.

Well, actually there needs to be a new config option for simply saying
"psm0 .. noconflict" or something in the kernel config file so that you
can disable it on a per-device basis.  This would be a bit hard, since
you'd need to then keep track of the devices so marked, which is probably
why it's not done yet.

Even simpler would be:

	options ALLOW_CONFLICT

But I'm not sure that it would be very popular with the purists.. :-)

					Jordan