Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 08:26:02PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:01:01AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 12:30:39AM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Thursday 30 September 2004 07:05 pm, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > > One other question. Isn't /dev/input/mice supposed to be a multiplexor
> > > > > for mice ? I think I remember some time when I could have both a PS2 and
> > > > > a USB mouse connected and X pointer followed both. Now if I boot with the
> > > > > USB mouse plugged, the PS2 one does not work. If I boot with usb unplugged
> > > > > and plug it after boot, both work; usb mouse works fine, and PS2 just
> > > > > jumps half screen each time I move it, and with big delays.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I bet it's USB legacy emulation topic again. Try loading USB modules first
> > > and then psmouse, should help.
> > > 
> > > Vojtech, what is the status of USB handoff patches. I have seen several
> > > variants and so far heard only success stories from people using them. Can
> > > we have them in kernel proper?
> > 
> > They are already in the -mm tree, but they need to be explicitly enabled
> > with a boot command line option to have the handoff happen.
>  
> I think we really need them by default. I had seven bugs with touchpads,
> lost synchronization with PS/2 mice and similar fixed just by enabling
> this patch unconditionally in the SuSE tree.

Hm, let's let the patch make it into mainline and they I'll consider
making it the default.  Ok?

thanks,

greg k-h