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HID: fix help texts in Kconfig
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The help text for CONFIG_HID might imply for someone that
it's necessary to enable it for any keyboard or mouse
attached to the system. This is obviously not correct, so
fix it to avoid confusing the users.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Jiri Kosina committed Jan 4, 2007
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17 changes: 12 additions & 5 deletions drivers/hid/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -9,11 +9,18 @@ config HID
depends on INPUT
default y
---help---
Say Y here if you want generic HID support to connect keyboards,
mice, joysticks, graphic tablets, or any other HID based devices
to your computer. You also need to select particular types of
HID devices you want to compile support for, in the particular
driver menu (USB, Bluetooth)
A human interface device (HID) is a type of computer device that
interacts directly with and takes input from humans. The term "HID"
most commonly used to refer to the USB-HID specification, but other
devices (such as, but not strictly limited to, Bluetooth) are
designed using HID specification (this involves certain keyboards,
mice, tablets, etc). This option compiles into kernel the generic
HID layer code (parser, usages, etc.), which can then be used by
transport-specific HID implementation (like USB or Bluetooth).

For docs and specs, see http://www.usb.org/developers/hidpage/

If unsure, say Y

endmenu

6 changes: 2 additions & 4 deletions drivers/usb/input/Kconfig
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Expand Up @@ -12,10 +12,8 @@ config USB_HID
---help---
Say Y here if you want full HID support to connect USB keyboards,
mice, joysticks, graphic tablets, or any other HID based devices
to your computer via USB. You also need to select HID Input layer
support (below) if you want to use keyboards, mice, joysticks and
the like ... as well as Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) and
monitor control devices.
to your computer via USB, as well as Uninterruptible Power Supply
(UPS) and monitor control devices.

You can't use this driver and the HIDBP (Boot Protocol) keyboard
and mouse drivers at the same time. More information is available:
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