F22: where is the files hids-id.h in the Fedora kernels?

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Sat Jun 27 12:39:53 UTC 2015


On 06/27/15 20:20, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 17:46:51 +0800 Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>
>> On 06/27/15 12:18, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On the kernels from kernel.org, we have the file hid-ids.h in:
>>>
>>> linux-4.0.5/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
>>>
>>> This kernel is however missing from my F22 installation (with the Fedora kernel). Where would this be? 
>>>
>> Konsole output
>> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ dnf whatprovides */hid-ids.h
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>> kcbench-data-4.0-0.1-16.fc22.noarch : Kernel sources from 4.0 to be used by kcbench
>> Repo        : fedora
> Yes, but is this correct? 

Well, kcbench-data does supply

/usr/share/kcbench-data/linux-4.0/drivers/hid/hid-ids.h

I don't know if that is what you want, or need, but that's about all the help I can give.  :-)

>
> sudo dnf info kcbench
> Description : Compiles a linux kernel to benchmark a system or test its
>             : stability.
>
> Just curious why hid-ids.h which has "USB HID quirks support for Linux" should end up in a kernel compilation whose goal is to compile a kernel to benchmark linux. 
>
> I am trying to install Fedora on a MS Surface Pro 3. This file in the kernel tells the device what to do with the Surface Type Cover 3 and so is needed in the LiveCD. Installation without it is a major pain.
>
>

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