Re: status of 2.6.7 ? (Was Re: Bug#256763: kernel-image-2.6.6-i386: not ready for sarge just yet)
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:19:07AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
>> For example, i know that the XF86Config-4 file needs to be changed when
>> using a ps2 mouse, since it was /dev/psaux previously, and is
>> /dev/input/mice now. Breaking X during the upgrade is hardly acceptable
>> if we are going to make 2.6 the default.
On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 07:17:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> The /dev/psaux situation seems to be a big mess. I added /dev/psaux
> upstream long ago so I wouldn't have to change my XF86Config for 2.4
> vs 2.6. In the meantime X can have two different input devices
> specified and won't fail if one of them doesn't work but gives strange
> results when both work. And Debian has both on the default XF86Config.
> Currently the Debian kernel has another config option to have /dev/psaux
> support in the kernel but disabled by default. I really hate that hack
> and would just remove /dev/psaux from the Debian kernel as apparently
> our X packages don't need that transition-aid.
Unless we've got a counterexample to its superfluity dropping it sounds
like the way to go. The weird thing is Sven's going on about device nodes'
names/locations. Sven, what's setting up your device nodes?
-- wli
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