ieee1394 *and* new input layer in one kernel

[jasons@cs.unm.edu (Jason E. Stewart)]

Hey,

So I've been happily running 2.2.x for quite some time. I shifted over
to using my USB devices under the new input layer and have been
extremely pleased.

Just recently, I swamped my internal hardrive on my G3 pismo while
building a debug version of OpenOffice, and bought a Maxtor external
firewire drive to supplement my internal disk. 

So now I need a kernel that can do both. I first tried using the
ieee1394 patch for 2.2.17, which didn't compile, but needed some
pretty minor adjustments (it gets undefined symbols if compiled with
SMP support) to get running. However, it doesn't work. It finds my
controller, and my drive, but as soon as it tries a read() it
hangs. Killing the wedged process crashes the kernel. Not good.

So I grabbed 2.4.0-test11 off rsynch from linuxcare. It built the
ieee1394 with no trouble, but when I rebooted, I didn't have a
keyboard or a mouse -- no new input layer support, and all my input
device files in /dev have been switched over.

So... according to instructions of the SuSE site, I downloaded ruby
off sourceforge and copied over the input layer files, and now 2.4.0
won't build. 

Ahhh!!!!!!

What is the right path to get 2.4.0 working with both ieee1394 *and*
the new input layer???

Thanks,
jas.