> 
> Hi !
> 
> > I've recently gotten a USB mouse and keyboard, and started looking
> > at the Linux USB code. Yesterday I added support in LibGII for USB
> > mice under Linux (use protocol "lnxusb"), and am now using my
> > MouseMan Wheel with mhub. 
> 
> Great !
> 
> > Works great with all four buttons and the wheel. As of kernel 2.3.25 the 
> > USB mouse driver only supports one USB mouse, 
> 
> ARGL ... will they make the same mistakes again over and over ?
> 
> > but if none of the USB people does it before me I intend to fix that.
> 
> Good. TNX.
> 
> > As for keyboards it seems you can attach multiple USB keyboards,
> > but everything will go into the normal (single-headed) console
> > system via calls to handle_scancode(), so multiple keyboards are
> > pretty useless. 
> 
> Ouch ...

It has been discussed on the USB list actually, but the priority seems
to be getting things working. It came up a few weeks back in terms of
device naming, when several people revealed that they wished to put
large numbers of keyboards plus mice, or large numbers of modems onto
one box.

Justin

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