On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:35:46 -0400, Bill Nottingham notting@redhat.com wrote:
Bruno Wolff III (bruno@wolff.to) said:
Under the 3.5 kernel I need to have the hid_generic module loaded for my USB keyboards to work. I didn't with the 3.4 kernels. This caused a problem with being able to be able to enter the password for my encrypted rootfs.
Why not just build it in, then?
Because at first I didn't know what the problem was. This could also could conceivably be a problem for fresh installs in a future where we are using 3.5 kernels for f17, but the module isn't included by default.
For now I added hid_generic to the list of kernel modules to include. I expect there will be a new dracut in rawhide soon as there have been a lot of releases lately.
The point of the original message was to suggest that if we use 3.5 kernels for F17, I think it would be a good idea to change the f17 version of dracut to include hid_generic by default. It isn't obvious to me that that will happen.