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

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0812211720050.7101@parag-desktop>
Date:	Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:23:28 -0500 (EST)
From:	Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@...il.com>
To:	Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@...il.com>
cc:	Parag Warudkar <parag.lkml@...il.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USBHID: Make Boot Protocol drivers depend on EMBEDDED



On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Anssi Hannula wrote:

> It may well be that Ubuntu has usbmouse blacklisted or employs udev
> rules that force usbhid to be loaded before usbmouse.
> 
Right - Ubuntu blacklists it and it works. Fedora doesn't blacklist it but 
it is not a problem with the distro shipped kernel - somehow. The problem 
happens only when using vanilla kernel on Fedora - not sure what's going 
on there. 

> On Mandriva it was handled in a similar way, before usbmouse was
> disabled from the kernel (no reason to have it in a "normal" kernel).
> 

Yep, and so the patch to make it dependent on EMBEDDED still makes sense.

Parag
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