Re: [PATCH] USBHID: Make Boot Protocol drivers depend on EMBEDDED

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sun Dec 21 2008 - 17:02:25 EST


On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:48:21 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Parag Warudkar wrote:
>
> > The usbmouse and usbkbd modules are not supposed to be used with regular
> > USB mice and keyboards. Make them depend on EMBEDDED to prevent them from
> > being built and loaded on non-EMBEDDED configs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/Kconfig b/drivers/hid/usbhid/Kconfig
> > index 5d9aa95..4edb3be 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/Kconfig
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/Kconfig
> > @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ config USB_HIDDEV
> > If unsure, say Y.
> >
> > menu "USB HID Boot Protocol drivers"
> > - depends on USB!=n && USB_HID!=y
> > + depends on USB!=n && USB_HID!=y && EMBEDDED
> >
> > config USB_KBD
> > tristate "USB HIDBP Keyboard (simple Boot) support"
>
> So do I get it right that the only reason of the problem you were seeing
> was that in the 2.6.27 kernel you have compiled usbhid module, which was
> then used for driving your mouse,but in 2.6.28-rcX you compiled and used
> 'usbmouse' instead, and therefore this is not a regression?
>

Shouldn't usbmouse support two-dimensional mice as well?
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