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authorJiri Kosina2007-01-03 23:03:14 +0100
committerJiri Kosina2007-01-04 11:43:35 +0100
commit69e4d94818cabf44d845b9f4b46d88de6e518dcf (patch)
treedca2e81aab9b9c7619f16faaaa634b0124431229 /drivers
parentc96c9d7b618806a0b9256503cec2755291d60cf6 (diff)
HID: fix help texts in Kconfig
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/hid/Kconfig17
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/input/Kconfig6
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hid/Kconfig b/drivers/hid/Kconfig
index 1ccc222a9d0d..ec796ad087df 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/hid/Kconfig
@@ -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
diff --git a/drivers/usb/input/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/input/Kconfig
index f877cd4f317a..258a5d09d3dc 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/input/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/usb/input/Kconfig
@@ -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: