Re: Happy Hacking Keyboard Lite Mk 2 USB Problems with 2.4.18.

From: Ralph Corderoy (ralph@inputplus.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jul 01 2002 - 11:47:23 EST


Hi Pete,

> > My theory is that usbkbd.o doesn't cope with ErrorRollover which is
> > being generated, unlike hid.o which didn't used to but does now.
>
> I have an idea: remove usbkbd or make it extremely hard for newbies to
> build (e.g. drop CONFIG_USB_KBD from config.in, so it would need to be
> added manually if you want usbkbd).

That doesn't sound too great.

> At the very minimum I would like to see all distros, and especially
> SuSE (because of Vojtech) to stop shipping usbkbd.o.

What I'd like to see, if both hid.o and usbkbd.o can handle a keyboard,
is that hid.o gets the job. Then usbkbd.o can stay in config.in and be
built just in case it's needed.

> > I'll try and use hid.o instead, usbkbd.o was just picked by this Red
> > Hat 7.2 system on adding the keyboard.
>
> Do up2date and be happy: usbkbd.o was removed from Red Hat kernels
> somewhere in erratas.

Ah, OK, thanks. Unfortunately, I've already moved onto 2.4.18 built
from source due to some of my other needs.

Cheers,

Ralph.

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