From: "Karel Kulhavý" <clock@twibright.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HID vs. Input Core
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:22:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040615172243.G6843@beton.cybernet.src> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040615143525.18034.qmail@web81309.mail.yahoo.com>; from dtor_core@ameritech.net on Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 07:35:25AM -0700
> >
> > CONFIG_INPUT Help says
> > "Say Y here if you want to enable any of the following options for USB
> > Human Interface Device (HID) support".
> >
> > Helge Hafting from linux-kernel says that CONFIG_INPUT controls enabling
> > input devices at
> > all. These two statements are in a direct contradiction. (See above).
> >
>
> Well, kind of... Helge Hafting is 100% correct in 2.6 sense where all
> input devices have been switched to use input core. In 2.4 only USB input
> devices use input core while other devices (like PS/2 mouse) use legacy
> interfaces like /dev/psaux.
>
> So for 2.4 you need to enable HID to turn on hardware driver for HID
> devices and you want to enable input core to allow data from your USB
> device to be awailabe to userspace.
So that enabling HID without input core in 2.4 doesn't make sense
and enabling input core without HID in 2.4 doesn't make sense too?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-15 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-15 14:35 Dmitry Torokhov
2004-06-15 17:22 ` Karel Kulhavý [this message]
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2004-06-15 12:58 Karel Kulhavý
2004-06-15 13:41 ` Helge Hafting
2004-06-15 13:56 ` Karel Kulhavý
2004-06-15 18:07 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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