From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261825AbTKBUhN (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:37:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261827AbTKBUhN (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:37:13 -0500 Received: from madrid10.amenworld.com ([62.193.203.32]:39692 "EHLO madrid10.amenworld.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261825AbTKBUhK (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Nov 2003 15:37:10 -0500 Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 21:37:01 +0100 From: DervishD To: Andrey Borzenkov Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: /dev/input/mice doesn't work in test9? Message-ID: <20031102203700.GA54@DervishD> References: <200311021312.15902.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20031102120820.GC206@DervishD> <200311022045.41928.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200311022045.41928.arvidjaar@mail.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Pleyades User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrey :) * Andrey Borzenkov dixit: > > But not char-major-13-32, for example. > for kernel device == major. It is assumed that complete major is > handled by single driver. OK, now all makes sense :) > But again, mousedev is using range of minors and > there is currently no established way to construct aliases for that. Short of > defining > > alias char-major-13-32 mousedev > alias char-major-13-33 mousedev > ... > alias char-major-13-63 mousedev > > looks rather weird. But, is it possible? Just guessing... > > Yes, I'm going to build in hid, but, should I do the same with > > mousedev (or event, joystick, etc...) or will it work with hid loaded > > when doing 'cat /dev/mouse'? > yes you should build it in. Or ensure it is loaded together with hid. It's easier if I just build it in. No need to mess with modules.conf for this one. The memory gain for having hid and mousedev as modules is minimal. Thanks for all the explanations :) Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado -- Linux Registered User 88736 http://www.pleyades.net & http://raul.pleyades.net/