[PATCH] man: list the drivers that are ignored when hotplugging (#35209)

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Thu Mar 17 18:31:46 PDT 2011


On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 01:17:35PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2011-03-17 13:00:46 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > I don't have the trace of what I did and tested, but I had in the
> > past on this machine (before I tried evdev):
> > 
> > Section "InputDevice"
> >         Identifier      "Synaptics Touchpad"
> >         Driver          "synaptics"
> >         Option          "AlwaysCore"
> >         Option          "Protocol"      "auto-dev"
> >         Option          "MaxTapTime"    "0"
> >         Option          "SHMConfig"     "true"
> >         Option          "EmulateMidButtonTime"  "0"
> > EndSection
> > 
> > But I don't remember why I switched the config to evdev (just that
> > mid button emulation could no longer be disabled, and I tried to
> > find information on the web).
> 
> I've found old notes saying that I tried synaptics but it didn't
> work. Perhaps I got confused by the line (due to udev):
> 
>   (II) UnloadModule: "synaptics"
> 
> Still, the synaptics(4) man page hasn't been updated to take
> hotplugging into account.

both issues addressed with
http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/4575/

and the series starting with
http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/4571/

Cheers,
  Peter


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