Re: USB mouse wheel breakage was Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac5

Robert M. Love
2001-06-01T12:44:14Z

On 01 Jun 2001 10:57:17 +0100, Michael wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:30:39PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 2.4.5-ac4
> > o Update USB hid drivers (Vojtech Pavlik)
>
> I think these changes have broken my USB wheel mouse.
>
> Events seems to be getting lost (/dev/input/mice)
>
> It only scrolls when either the scroll direction has changed or if other
> mouse events occur (e.g. you need to wiggle mouse from side to side to
> scroll down a long page in mozilla)
>
> problems seems to be in drivers/usb/hid-core.c hid_input_field line 772

ive noticed the same problem -- mouse movement itself is even jerky, so
i suspect events are being lost. the mouse is not really even usable
for me in X.

i too traced the problem down to hid-core.c, i think, and i am going to
try to write up a patch against the latest ac, but the Maintainer may
already realize the problem?

--
Robert M. Love
rml@ufl.edu
rml@tech9.net