FS#19328 - [mkinitpcio] Add usbinput to hooks

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Matthew Gyurgyik (pyther) - Sunday, 02 May 2010, 14:57 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Saturday, 25 June 2011, 11:52 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

I think it would be nice to have usbinput has a default hook in mkinitcpio.conf. Without this hook, when dumped into the busybox recovery shell usb keyboards won't work, making the shell worthless. Many users now have usb keyboards.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18810 <== There were a handful of users that had no idea how to get a usb keyboard to work, including myself.
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Saturday, 25 June 2011, 11:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Additional comments about closing:  committed in git:
http://projects.archlinux.org/mkinitcpio .git/commit/?id=ead707165e3b084b814ae924 e6d206720f414031
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Sunday, 02 May 2010, 15:56 GMT
I think this would be an OK default. Modern machines don't even HAVE ps2 ports anymore...
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 19 June 2011, 10:41 GMT
Patch sent to arch-projects ML

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