Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:22:43 +0000
From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Karel_Kulhav=FD?= <clock@twibright.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HID vs. Input Core
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> > 
> > CONFIG_INPUT Help says
> > "Say Y here if you want to enable any of the following options for USB
> > Human Interface Device (HID) support".
> > 
> > Helge Hafting from linux-kernel says that CONFIG_INPUT controls enabling
> > input devices at
> > all. These two statements are in a direct contradiction. (See above).
> > 
> 
> Well, kind of... Helge Hafting is 100% correct in 2.6 sense where all
> input devices have been switched to use input core. In 2.4 only USB input
> devices use input core while other devices (like PS/2 mouse) use legacy
> interfaces like /dev/psaux.
> 
> So for 2.4 you need to enable HID to turn on hardware driver for HID
> devices and you want to enable input core to allow data from your USB
> device to be awailabe to userspace.

So that enabling HID without input core in 2.4 doesn't make sense
and enabling input core without HID in 2.4 doesn't make sense too?

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