linux-kernel - Re: 3.5-rcX: USB support without udev?

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Message-ID: <20120702002951.GA2184@gherkin.frus.com>
Date:	Sun, 1 Jul 2012 19:29:51 -0500
From:	Bob Tracy <rct@...rkin.frus.com>
To:	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Ming Lei <tom.leiming@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.5-rcX: USB support without udev?

On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 06:25:42PM -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 01, 2012 at 10:41:18PM +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> > If you did a 'make oldconfig' on anything prior to -rc5, chances are
> > you do not have CONFIG_HID_GENERIC=y in your .config.
> 
> That might well be the missing "glue."  I'm building -rc5 as I type
> this.  Should have an answer in a few hours.  Thanks for the clue!

That was it!  Thank you!  Keyboard and mouse now working fine.

Unless there was a way to get the CONFIG_HID_GENERIC functionality
via some other mechanism prior to -rc5, I'd classify this as a
regression introduced in 3.5-rc1 that was fixed in -rc5.

--Bob
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