USB mouse wheel breakage was Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac5

Michael
2001-06-01T09:57:38Z

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

for (n = 0; n < count; n++) {

if (HID_MAIN_ITEM_VARIABLE & field->flags) {

if ((field->flags & HID_MAIN_ITEM_RELATIVE) && !value[n])
continue;
The next 2 lines are dropping the scroll wheel events (which appear in the
input code as type:2, code: 8, value -1 or 1 depending on direction)

if (value[n] == field->value[n])
continue;
hid_process_event(hid, field, &field->usage[n], value[n]);
continue;
}

Works fine in ac3.
--
Michael.