On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Christoph M.
<christophm30(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi Fedora kernel team,
>
> today I've received a CP2112 based USB-to-I2C adapter board
> to interact with some I2C devices. I've chosen an adpater based
> on that chip since it has a mainline Linux driver.
>
> To my surprise the adapter was not working, because the
> config file of the Fedora kernel has HID_CP2112 not set
> (I've checked /boot/config-4.13.16-302.fc27.x86_64).
>
> Recompiling a kernel is not an issue for me, but doing that
> regularly might get a bit cumbersome at some point.
>
> Therefore I'd like to ask if there is a specific reason why this
> kernel config option is not enabled in the Fedora kernel and
> what would be necessary to get this enabled by default?
Probably because no one has requested it to date, I'll enable it in
4.14+ in F-27+ and it should land back into F-26 once it gets 4.14
That's what I was hoping for.
Thanks a lot,
Christoph