From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: mouse configuration in 2.6.1
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:32:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040121123253.GA538@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040121132337.7f8d3c79.ak@suse.de>
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:23:37PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> (brought to you by the department of redundancy department)
>
> The "new" and "improved" version is apparently:
>
> psmouse_base.psmouse_proto=bare
2.6.2 will have it as:
psmouse.proto=bare
which isn't that bad.
> And 2.6.0 -> 2.6.1 silently changing to that without any documentation
> anywhere, silently breaking my mouse. And debugging it requires a lot
> of reboots because we have regressed to Windows state where every
> mouse setting change requires a reboot :-/
>
> Sorry Rusty. You are probably the wrong target for the flame, but a
> combination of probably well intended changes including module_parm
> brought a total usability disaster here.
Keep prepared for yet another silent change (documentation _is_ getting
updated, though). And I'll don my asbestos overall ...
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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2004-01-19 12:40 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 4:06 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Rusty Russell
2004-01-21 4:56 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-01-21 8:40 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-21 12:27 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 12:34 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-21 12:46 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 13:13 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Vojtech Pavlik
2004-01-22 1:31 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Rusty Russell
2004-01-21 12:53 ` 2.6.1-mm4 Dmitry Torokhov
2004-01-21 12:23 ` mouse configuration in 2.6.1 Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 12:31 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-01-21 12:42 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 12:53 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-01-21 13:02 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-21 13:06 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2004-01-21 13:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2004-01-21 12:32 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2004-01-22 1:14 ` Rusty Russell
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