linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28-rc9: USB Mouse unhappy

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Date:	Sun, 21 Dec 2008 18:30:18 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@...il.com>
cc:	Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28-rc9: USB Mouse unhappy

On Sun, 21 Dec 2008, Parag Warudkar wrote:

> > This sounds to me like 'usbmouse' gets used instead of 'usbhid' on
> > 2.6.28-rc9. Many users have reported only vertical movement with
> > 'usbmouse'. Better check the kernel configuration, if you had usbmouse
> > disabled in 2.6.27, then disable it with 2.6.28-rc9 as well.
> Sure enough - rmmod usbhid; modprobe usbmouse reproduces the exact same 
> problem on a working kernel.
> But the thing is I use the same base configuration across all kernels
> I build (sans of course the newly added config options) - so something
> changed somewhere and now usbmouse gets used instead of usbhid.

Could you please

- make sure whether usbhid is used on 2.6.27 to drive the mouse and 
  usbmouse on 2.6.28-rc with the exact same mouse? (either check 
  /sys/bus/usb/devices or even lsusb shouldn't ideally show usbmouse 
  loaded at all)
- if so, make sure that you really need to build usbmouse (please read the 
  help text in Kconfig for explanation)

> What's the deal with usbmouse though - is it supposed to be working or 
> is it considered lost cause in favor of usbhid? May be if people don't 
> need to use it and it is not actively looked into, we can disable/remove 
> it?

Really, please read the help text.

Maybe we should make it dependent on EMBEDDED.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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