Re: [patch] The input move patch without moving to input

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 12:05:03PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:43:26AM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 08:43:37PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > This one moves just the non-USB stuff of the input drivers out of
> > > > drivers/usb. That is, the bus-independent userland interface (char
> > > > device) modules. It places them in drivers/char. And modifies the
> > > > Makefiles and Config.in's accordingly.
> > > 
> > > I'd actually prefer drivers/input.
> > > 
> > > The argument I had against drivers/input was not an argument against a new
> > > subdirectory. It was an argument against moving the things like hid.c and
> > > the like to drivers/input, like the email I replied to tried to do.
> > > 
> > > hid.c is something USB-specific. It had better _not_ be a part of any
> > > "generic input layer". The same is true of usbkbd.c and friends. They are
> > > _usb_ drivers, and shall belong in drivers/usb.
> > 
> > Ok. Here is a patch that does that. Any more objections?
> 
> Replying to myself: This doesn't work. iforce.c (using both serial and
> USB interfaces) doesn't get compiled in correctly when only serial
> interface is selected.
> 
> More work ahead.

Done now. Please check this patch if it's OK. It moves iforce.c out of
drivers/usb, but that's necessary. Anyway, iforce.c is more a joystick
driver than an USB driver.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs