Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:32:53 +0100
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: mouse configuration in 2.6.1
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On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:23:37PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

> (brought to you by the department of redundancy department)
> 
> The "new" and "improved" version is apparently:
> 
> psmouse_base.psmouse_proto=bare

2.6.2 will have it as:

psmouse.proto=bare

which isn't that bad.

> And 2.6.0 -> 2.6.1 silently changing to that without any documentation
> anywhere, silently breaking my mouse. And debugging it requires a lot
> of reboots because we have regressed to Windows state where every
> mouse setting change requires a reboot :-/
> 
> Sorry Rusty. You are probably the wrong target for the flame, but a
> combination of probably well intended changes including module_parm
> brought a total usability disaster here.

Keep prepared for yet another silent change (documentation _is_ getting
updated, though). And I'll don my asbestos overall ...

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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