From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc9: USB Mouse unhappy Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:19:27 +0100 Message-ID: <200901100119.28198.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <200901100011.35332.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Parag Warudkar , Anssi Hannula , Andrew Morton , LKML , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org 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