On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Jiri Kosina wrote: > >> On Wed, 23 Sep 2015, Alan Stern wrote: >> >> > Your mistake was thinking that the driver for your keyboard is usbkbd. >> > It isn't. It's usbhid, as you can see in the "lsusb -t" output above. >> >> As Eric is absolutely not the first person ever who got confused by this >> (and I can certainly understand the reasons for this confusion), I've been >> thinking for quite some time already about renaming this driver (and >> usbmouse as well). We'd probably want to make obvious from the name that >> this isn't regular usb keyboard driver. >> >> Any opinions on usbkbd-simple or usbkbd-dummy? The most accurate would of >> course be usbkbd-boot, but that might be equally confusing. > > I prefer -simple over -dummy. Even better would be usbkbd-alt. > >> The drawback I can see in renaming the driver is various embedded folks >> having he name hardcoded in their scripts. > > Yes, that's a real problem. Similar considerations apply to .config > files, if you also change the Kconfig symbol name. Maybe a better description on Kconfig and/or comments on source code it's enough. Because breaking that compatibility just because of a name doesn't sound really appealing. I had previously denied patches for breaking compatibility by making things correct. Felipe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
