Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 1999 12:47:49 +0000 | From | Johan Myréen <> | Subject | Re: ISSUE: psaux does not load in 2.2.0pre6 |
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David Woodhouse wrote:
> alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk said: > > Its a yes/no item now not a module
> Why? I only just managed to make it a module on all the machines I compile > kernels for, so that they don't have to be rebooted just to plug a mouse in.
Short answer: because it merged with the keyboard driver code, and the keyboard driver has not been modularized.
I'm not sure it is worth the trouble to modularize the keyboard driver (maybe a y/n option for very special applications).
Is there a problem with always compiling the driver into the kernel on machines you expect to use the mouse port? It doesn't use more than a few K, especially now that it shares code with the keyboard driver.
BTW, pre-8 (currently in testing) contains new detection code that detects a mouse port without an attached mouse.
Johan Myréen jem@iki.fi
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