From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261821AbTJMRJ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:09:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261812AbTJMRJ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:09:26 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:33937 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261850AbTJMRJX (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Oct 2003 13:09:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:59:56 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: lkml Cc: ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp, zippel@linux-m68k.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test7 and HIDBP Message-Id: <20031013095956.21b05ffd.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20031013094943.25ea6577.rddunlap@osdl.org> References: <1f8801c38f11$da95c410$5cee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20031010073750.001ad559.rddunlap@osdl.org> <242001c38fdf$fb165690$5cee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20031011111328.GB932@mars.ravnborg.org> <26ca01c38ff9$f4762d00$5cee4ca5@DIAMONDLX60> <20031013094943.25ea6577.rddunlap@osdl.org> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:49:43 -0700 "Randy.Dunlap" wrote: | On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 22:15:50 +0900 "Norman Diamond" 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. -- ~Randy