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SubjectRe: /dev/psaux problem (2.6.5)
FromSau Dan Lee <>
Date20 Apr 2004 09:20:50 +0200
>>>>> "Rodichev" == E Rodichev <er@sai.msu.su> writes:

    Rodichev> There is a good problem description at
    Rodichev> http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee/fun/psaux/
    Rodichev> and a user space driver which solves the problem. It
    Rodichev> works fine with 2.6.3, but not with 2.6.5.

    Rodichev> The reason is that in 2.6.5 it looks impossible to
    Rodichev> disable the existing mouse driver, which conflicts with
    Rodichev> driver from Tuukka Toivonen. My temporary solution was
    Rodichev> 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


Well...  that  means you can disable  that option if  you have enabled
CONFIG_EMBEDDED, which is the top level option "Remove kernel features
(for embedded  systems)".  I  don't understand why  they make  it like
that.  It's quite unintuitive.

I  have  added  this  note  to  my latest  Kconfig  for  psaux,  which
unfortunately was not released.  :P




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Sau Dan LEE                     李守敦(Big5)                    ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) 
E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee

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