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    SubjectRe: mouse configuration in 2.6.1
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    On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:

    > On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:06:57 +1100
    > Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
    >
    > > In message <p73r7xwglgn.fsf@verdi.suse.de> you write:
    > > > Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> writes:
    > > >
    > > > > Migrating to module_param() is the Right Thing here IMHO, which actually
    > > > > takes the damn address,
    > > >
    > > > The main problem is that module_parm renames the boot time arguments and
    > > > makes them long and hard to remember.
    > >
    > > Um, if the module name is neat, and the parameter name is neat, the
    > > combination of the two with a "." between them will be nest.
    >
    > Unfortunately we have lots of non neat module names and many previous boot
    > time arguments note their subsystem which adds even more redundancy.
    >
    > And you're suggesting people to move to module_parm now in the stable
    > series leads to renaming of module parameters, which breaks previously
    > working configurations in often subtle ways. Maybe that's acceptable
    > in a unstable development kernel, but I don't think it is in 2.6.
    >
    > How about adding a "setup option alias" table and require that everybody
    > changing an existing __setup to module_parm adds an alias there?
    >
    > > > E.g. the new argument needed to make the mouse work on KVMs is
    > > > mindboogling, could be nearly a Windows registry entry.
    > >
    > > I have no idea what you are talking about. 8(
    >
    > psmouse_base.psmouse_noext
    >
    > (brought to you by the department of redundancy department)
    >
    > The "new" and "improved" version is apparently:
    >
    > psmouse_base.psmouse_proto=bare

    Actually it's psmouse.proto=bare

    > which is even worse.
    >
    > And 2.6.0 -> 2.6.1 silently changing to that without any documentation anywhere,
    > silently breaking my mouse. And debugging it requires a lot of reboots
    > because we have regressed to Windows state where every mouse setting change
    > requires a reboot :-/
    >
    > Sorry Rusty. You are probably the wrong target for the flame, but a combination
    > of probably well intended changes including module_parm brought a total usability
    > disaster here.
    >
    > -Andi
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