Re: 2.6.0-test7 and HIDBP

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:49:43 -0700 "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org> wrote:

| On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 22:15:50 +0900 "Norman Diamond" <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp> wrote:
| 
| | Or maybe there are bugs in both of these front-ends.  I finally thought of
| | looking at two .config files in text editors, one produced by make xconfig
| | and one produced by make gconfig.  Both are for kernel 2.6.0-test7 though
| | the machines and original distros are different.
| | 
| | In the .config generated by make xconfig, the following lines exist:
| | 
| | #
| | # USB Human Interface Devices (HID)
| | #
| | CONFIG_USB_HID=m
| | CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
| | # CONFIG_HID_FF is not set
| | # CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV is not set
| | 
| | #
| | # USB HID Boot Protocol drivers
| | #
| | # CONFIG_USB_KBD is not set
| | # CONFIG_USB_MOUSE is not set
| | # CONFIG_USB_AIPTEK is not set
| | # CONFIG_USB_WACOM is not set
| | [...]
| | 
| | OK, aside from making me wonder what HIDDEV refers to and why it isn't set,
| | and making it rather non-obvious which drivers are HID Boot Protocol and
| | which aren't, the settings look pretty reasonable to me.
| | 
| | In the .config generated by make gconfig, the following lines exist:
| | 
| | #
| | # USB Human Interface Devices (HID)
| | #
| | CONFIG_USB_HID=y
| | CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT=y
| | # CONFIG_HID_FF is not set
| | CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y
| | # CONFIG_USB_AIPTEK is not set
| | # CONFIG_USB_WACOM is not set
| | [...]
| | 
| | With this file in a text editor, searching for string USB_KBD results in the
| | string not being found.
| 
| Let me see if I am understanding this..
| Is the problem that some generated .config files contain different
| strings for options that are _not_ set, depending on which
| front-end is used?
| Or are you discussing a bug in the (on-screen) viewable part of a
| config front-end?
| 
| If so, I'll confirm that different config front-ends generate different
| .config files, and it makes using "vi .config && make oldconfig"
| not as usable as I'd like it to be, but I don't know that it's a bug.

oops, I mis-diffed the config files, but I'll keep looking since
I think that I've seen something like this before.

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~Randy