Re: kernel 2.4.19 error with usbcore.o

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:23:40PM -0500, Daya Cooppan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The default for the USB section is to included USB support (y) in the 
> kernel. I am assuming the usbcore.o got incorporated into the kernel 
> build tree during [make dep; make bzImage; make modules; make 
> modules_install]. I continued to get mousedev errors ...verified that I 
> had mouse support, hid support, uhci support, all this look good. As 
> soon as I changed "USB Support" from (y) to (m), i.e. made usbcore.o a 
> loadable module WALLA! usb devices started to work. Question: Is there a 
> bug with (y) support for "USB Support" ?

No, you need to set CONFIG_INPUT to y if you are also selecting the HID
driver to be compiled into the kernel.  That should solve your problem.

thanks,

greg k-h