On 25 September 2015 at 16:45, Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2015-09-25 08:02, Jiri Kosina wrote: >> >> On Fri, 25 Sep 2015, Felipe Tonello wrote: >> >>> Maybe a better description on Kconfig and/or comments on source code >>> it's enough. >> >> >> I personally find the current Kconfig description: >> >> === >> config USB_KBD >> tristate "USB HIDBP Keyboard (simple Boot) support" >> depends on USB && INPUT >> ---help--- >> Say Y here only if you are absolutely sure that you don't want >> to use the generic HID driver for your USB keyboard and prefer >> to use the keyboard in its limited Boot Protocol mode instead. >> >> This is almost certainly not what you want. This is mostly >> useful for embedded applications or simple keyboards. >> >> To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the >> module will be called usbkbd. >> >> If even remotely unsure, say N. >> === >> >> shouldn't leave anyone dounting, but people are getting confused again and >> again nevertheless. >> > For some reason there seem to be a lot of people who go to configure there > own kernel and don't read the help text (I understand if you've been > building your own Linux kernel's for years and actually understand what a > Kconfig option is really asking, but most people who I've heard of doing > this have never built a kernel before in their life). > > On the other hand, can anyone think of any real reason to use this outside > of embedded systems? I know there are a lot of distros that build this and > the USB HIDBP mouse support as modules, but I have yet to hear/find any > reports of hardware that _only_ works with this driver and not the generic > HID driver. If this is the case, it might make sense to make this depend on > EXPERT or at least remove the bit about 'simple keyboards'. > As regards renaming usbkbd.c, @Austin there are some reasons why you would not read the Kconfig. As a beginner, I didn't even configure this part or read the help text as I used the configuration that comes with Fedora, I don't know if that's a valid excuse or not though. I'll leave you guys decide, you're the experts! As regards the issue with my capslock led I'm still looking into it. -- 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
