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[Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

cyberdork33 wrote:
> Someone today said that bcm5974-dkms depends on usbhid-dkms, and someone
> here has already said that that package was not needed anymore on
> jaunty. Can someone look into that?
> 

After much testing, the conclusion is that there no longer is any point
for bcm5974 to depend on usbhid or any other external dkms package. Here
is an excerpt from the git log of the just uploaded version:

commit 9ef004eb41fe5e2b087d61b00e3963fad97e6332
Author: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Thu Mar 19 02:19:24 2009 +0100

    Removed dependency on usbhid

    In 2.6.28, the only additional configuration needed is for the new
    macbooks using the wellspring3 device. The configuration is already
    upstream, in a stalled commit ac26fca3 which is in hid-core, not
    usbhid. Since jaunty comes with hid built in, there is no need or
    possibility to use dkms for the configuration, but one must resort
    to other methods.

    Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The "other method" could possibly be to specify a hid quirk
on the boot line somehow, or to use some dynamic parameter scheme.

Cheers,
Henrik