logistics related to moving up to the 2.6.0-test kernel

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 13:35, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> newer RPMs
> ----------
> 
>   it appears that there's no longer any need to get newer (rawhide)
> versions of things like modutils, initscripts, etc.  the versions
> in fedora 0.94 seem to work fine.  does this sound about right?

Yep! modutils from Fedora 0.94 do support 2.6 kernels.

> USB support
> -----------
> 
>   once upon a time, you would have wanted to edit the /etc/rc.sysinit
> file and change the lines similar to:
> 
>     action $"Initializing USB keyboard: " modprobe keybdev 2> /dev/null
>     action $"Initializing USB mouse: " modprobe mousedev 2> /dev/null
> 
> so that the module names were no longer keybdev and mousedev, but
> were usbkbd and usbmouse.  now that doesn't appear to be necessary
> anymore.  in fact, it *appears* that you can remove those two lines
> entirely.
> 
>   from running "make xconfig", it looks like all you have to do is
> select "USB", then input device support, with which you get basic
> mouse and keyboard support automatically.  i don't see separate
> config options for mouse and keyboard, so i'm suspecting these
> two lines can just be removed.  can anyone confirm/deny that?

Confirmed! USB mouse and keyboard do only require kernel HID support.
The old usbkdb and usbmouse modules are no longer required, so you can
safely remove those lines.