[ltp] Kernel 2.6 and two mice

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 25 May 2004 11:55:45 +0200


On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:34:52 +0200, Edi Weitz wrote:
> On Tue, 25 May 2004 10:35:55 +0200, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@web.de> wrote:
> 
> > Maybe there is another device associated with the USB mouse after
> > you plug it in again?
> 
> Would that be a USB device? The mouse is the only USB device I'm
> currently using. How could I check this?
> 
> > Do you use devfs?
> 
> No.
> 
>   # CONFIG_DEVFS_FS is not set
> 
> Should I? I'll build a kernel with devfs and see if it makes a
> difference.

With devfs, there would be a device node for a device only if it really
exists. That way, you could see if there is a new device node in
/dev/input if you re-plug in the mouse.

Regards,
Tino