On Thu, 24 Sep 2015, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 23 Sep 2015, Alan Stern wrote: > > > Your mistake was thinking that the driver for your keyboard is usbkbd. > > It isn't. It's usbhid, as you can see in the "lsusb -t" output above. > > As Eric is absolutely not the first person ever who got confused by this > (and I can certainly understand the reasons for this confusion), I've been > thinking for quite some time already about renaming this driver (and > usbmouse as well). We'd probably want to make obvious from the name that > this isn't regular usb keyboard driver. > > Any opinions on usbkbd-simple or usbkbd-dummy? The most accurate would of > course be usbkbd-boot, but that might be equally confusing.
I prefer -simple over -dummy. Even better would be usbkbd-alt. > The drawback I can see in renaming the driver is various embedded folks > having he name hardcoded in their scripts. Yes, that's a real problem. Similar considerations apply to .config files, if you also change the Kconfig symbol name. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
