Re: [PATCH] hid-core: Configurable USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Dec 17 2004 - 20:30:28 EST


On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:12:50AM +0000, Mikkel Krautz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This patch adds the option "USB HID Mouse Interrupt Polling Interval"
> to drivers/usb/input/Kconfig, and a few lines of code to
> drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c, to make the config option function.
>
> It allows people to change the interval, at which their USB HID mice
> are polled at. This is extremely useful for people who require high
> precision, or just likes the feeling of a very precise mouse. ;)
>
> As the Kconfig help implies, setting a lower polling interval is known
> to work on several mice produced by Logitech and Microsoft. I only
> have a Logitech MX500 to test it on. My results have been positive,
> and so have many other people's.

Why not just make it a sysfs file, so you can tune it per device? That
way you also don't have to make it a Kconfig option.

thanks,

greg k-h
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