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

From: Parag Warudkar
Date: Sun Dec 21 2008 - 17:23:50 EST




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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