Re: 2.6.1-mm4

[Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>]

On Wednesday 21 January 2004 07:34 am, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:27:44PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 09:40:09 +0100
> >
> > Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > Inbetween the module changes and the input changes there was a
> > > situation, where you'd have to pass
> > >
> > > 	psmouse.psmouse_maxproto=imps2
> > >
> > > as a kernel argument. This should (I hope so, I have to check) be
> > > fixed now.
> >
> > No, 2.6.1 requires it.
> >
> > And worst is that you have to reboot to change mouse settings at all.
> > That just doesn't make any sense. Can you please add an runtime sysfs
> > interface for this?
>
> It's planned, though not easy to implement at all. I don't think I'll
> be able to get this into 2.6.2. For now you can enable EMBEDDED,
> compile psmouse as a module, and just rmmod/insmod it with new
> parameters.

No, it's just mousedev that is always built-in, psmouse can be compiled
as a module (and that's the reason the whole naming mess happened - I use
it as a module and haven't noticed the necessity of the prefixes when
converted to the module_param()).

-- 
Dmitry