Re: USB Device

["Matthew Gillen" <user=50@nabble.blu.org>]

 jbk wrote: 
> Is the recognition of a particular piece of USB hardware 
> dependent on the kernel or the hal and/or hwdata definitions? The reason 
> I ask is that I am considering downloading the F8 source for hal and the 
> hwdata and compiling them on F7 for my current kernel version. Has 
> anyone done this or do you think I'm asking for trouble? 

It's really hard to say.  It used to be that everything that a driver 
needed was in the kernel-space.  Some things have been migrating to 
user-space though, and device-specific variations/configurations for, 
say, the general usb-storage driver, might very well be one of those things. 

The only thing that might bite you is if the hwdata depends on a driver 
feature that wasn't in the F7 kernel version.  I don't follow the 
development of that stuff closely enough to tell you what the odds of 
that are.  However, you could avoid the issue completely by grabbing the 
F8 kernel src.rpm and rebuilding it on your F7 box.  Or, even easier, 
try to just install the F8 kernel.  If there aren't any RPM complaints, 
then it should work fine. 

HTH, 
Matt 

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