Le 11/07/2015 17:45, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Pierre Labastie wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm writing to -dev, because I am not sure that everybody interested is >> monitoring -book. The main "issue" about this driver is that the kernels 4.1 >> and above have an improved manager for th VMware mouse, so that: >> - xf86-input-vmmouse is not needed at all with those kernels. I've tested >> under qemu and VMware. >> - older versions of this driver conflict with those new kernels. This means >> that if you have a new kernel, you must have the new driver (but you don't >> need it...). >> >> At a moment, I was inclined to remove the xf86-input-vmmouse driver >> completely >> from the book, because of the above, but there are two reasons to keep it: >> - obviously, not everybody is using a newer kernel yet. >> - less obviously, to use the kernel VMmouse driver, a few non trivial options >> have to be set in the kernel configuration. >> >> So now I propose to keep the driver, and to add a paragraph telling that this >> driver is not needed with newer kernel and giving the relevant kernel >> options. > > I agree. I'd also add that we should change to lfs77_built instead of > checked. When we get to 7.8 (freeze will be in about a month), we will not be > able to check it. > > -- Bruce > > To check it, you just need a kernel before 4.1. Don't you have a spare one? I've tested with 4.0.3 and 4.1 both in qemu and VMware-player. It is not that long. You just have to build the driver, and reboot to the needed kernel. Well, I have been slow with installing and using the VMware machine, but this is not relevant here.
BTW, the sed seems to not be needed anymore. The patch is not needed with newer versions, as Armin noted in the patch header. Pierre -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
