Re: why are these drivers missing from the Fedora kernel?

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Missing from where?  What package are you referring to, because the
>>> file is certainly in the kernel sources.
>>
>> I agree. The kernel is indeed in the vanilla kernel sources. However, it is not installed with the fedora kernel.
>>
>> So why does this matter? The MS Surface Type Cover 3 is not recognized at all with a Fedora 22 installation. It is recognized however, in distributions like kUbuntu. There, the dmesg gives:
>>
>>
>> [    1.866285] usb 1-3: new full-speed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
>> [    1.994694] usb 1-3: No LPM exit latency info found, disabling LPM.
>> [    1.996342] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=045e, idProduct=07e2
>> [    1.996346] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
>> [    1.996349] usb 1-3: Product: Surface Type Cover
>> [    1.996351] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Microsoft
>>
>> Such a dmesg does not show up with Fedora 22 LiveCD.
>>
>> So I looked this up:
>>
>> ~$ sudo dnf provides */hid-ids.h
>> Last metadata expiration check performed 3:56:27 ago on Tue Jun 30 08:06:19 2015.
>> kcbench-data-4.0-0.1-16.fc22.noarch : Kernel sources from 4.0 to be used by
>>                                     : kcbench
>> Repo        : fedora
>>
>> You can see that the file is in kcbench-data (which, btw, is 525 M addiitionally (!) when installed).
>>
>> I just wonder why the files/drivers are in the kernel (from kernel.org) but are not there in the Fedora 22 kernel. They seem to be there in the Ubuntu kernels.
>
> The commit is upstream [1] as of November and the appropriate bits are
> in our kernel. Does it work if you "modprobe hid-microsoft" ?

Actually it looks like you have a new variant " idProduct=07e2" that's
not in our kernel yet, is it a specific language layout or something?
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