Re: /dev/psaux problem (2.6.5)

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 07:38:22 EST


On Monday 19 April 2004 07:26 pm, E.Rodichev wrote:

> The reason is that in 2.6.5 it looks impossible to disable the existing
> mouse driver, which conflicts with driver from Tuukka Toivonen. My
> temporary solution was as follows:
>
>
> --- drivers/input/Kconfig.orig ?2004-04-04 07:36:18.000000000 +0400
> +++ drivers/input/Kconfig ? ? ? 2004-04-20 03:45:31.000000000 +0400
> @@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ comment "Userland interfaces"
>
> ?config INPUT_MOUSEDEV
> ? ? ? ? tristate "Mouse interface" if EMBEDDED
> - ? ? ? default y
> ? ? ? ? depends on INPUT
> ? ? ? ? ---help---
> ? ? ? ? ? Say Y here if you want your mouse to be accessible as char devices
>

Ok, I am slow today, but how does mousedev affect his psaux implementation?
I can see that his module can conflict with psmouse (which is configurable),
but mousedev?

The reason it is always on because it is useful for any kind of mouse -
serial, USB, PS/2. You really want to keep it around...

--
Dmitry
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