Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760392AbZAJAUd (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:20:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754168AbZAJAUR (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:20:17 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:59631 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751400AbZAJAUP (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:20:15 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Jiri Kosina Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc9: USB Mouse unhappy Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:19:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.28-rjw; KDE/4.1.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Parag Warudkar , Anssi Hannula , Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org References: <200901100011.35332.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901100119.28198.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1291 Lines: 33 On Saturday 10 January 2009, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jan 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > usbmouse on 2.6.28-rc with the exact same mouse? (either check > > > > /sys/bus/usb/devices or even lsusb shouldn't ideally show usbmouse > > > > loaded at all) > > > Sorry for the above typo, 'lsusb' should of course be 'lsmod' here. > > Can you tell me what the status of this issue is, please? > > Parag was using incorrect driver -- usbmouse -- (which is intended to be > used only under very special circumstances) instead of standard HID > driver. > > Kconfig help text clearly states how special the usbmouse driver is, but > many people still try to use it, probably because of its name. Therefore > we now have > > Author: Parag Warudkar > Date: Mon Dec 22 22:50:52 2008 +0100 > > HID: make boot protocol drivers depend on EMBEDDED > > which is already in Linus tree and which makes the possibility of chosing > this special driver dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. OK, thanks! Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/