hello,

On 2024-01-19 13:21, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2024/01/19 13:15, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > On 2024/01/19 13:27, Radek wrote:
> > > I'm not using any USB keyboard but I need USB port to manage APC UPS 
> > > connected by USB cable (apcupsd).
> > 
> > Yes exactly.
> 
> ...actually, maybe it needs to be "disable uhidev".
> 
> Point is that if you don't need other uhid devices to be handled
> by kernel drivers, you can disable the driver, and they'll fallback
> to being handled by ugen - same as is done more selectively by the
> patch.
> 
> And by not using the patch, you can use a standard downloaded
> kernel avoiding the need to rebuild on a relatively slow
> machine - and, assuming you want to move back onto normal releases
> later, you'll then be able to use syspatch.

i use this on several hosts which run apcupsd which as Stuart notes lets
me just use the standard kernel

$ cat /etc/bsd.re-config  
disable upd
disable uhidev

thanks,

.jh

> > > On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 11:05:13 +0000
> > > Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On 2024/01/19 08:32, Radek wrote:
> > > > > > It looks like you are running 7.4 release with a self compiled
> > > > > > kernel.
> > > > > True, is it GENERIC kernel compiled with usb APC UPS support, the 
> > > > > rest is untouched.
> > > > > [root@@krz74~:]grep APC /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usb_quirks.c
> > > > >  { USB_VENDOR_APC, USB_PRODUCT_APC_UPS, ANY, { UQ_BAD_HID }},
> > > > >  { USB_VENDOR_APC, USB_PRODUCT_APC_UPS5G, ANY, { UQ_BAD_HID }},
> > > > 
> > > > btw, for this case (headless machine so no real need for a USB
> > > > keyboard), you may be able to simply "disable uhid" in bsd.re-config(5)
> > > > and avoid the need to recompile kernels.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Radek
> > > 
> > 
> 

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