usbhid: Enable by default

Co-authored-by: Emmanuel Vadot <manu@FreeBSD.org>
Reviewed by:	bapt, wulf
Relnotes:	Yes
Sponsored by:	Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG
Sponsored by:	The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45659

UPDATING

@@ -27,6 +27,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 15.x IS SLOW:
 	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
 	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20250730:
+	The usbhid(4) USB HID driver is now enabled by default, and will be
+	used in preference to other USB HID drivers like ukbd(4), ums(4), and
+	uhid(4).  Work on a FIDO/U2F driver and moused(8) is in progress.
+	The default is being switched now so that we can find and fix any
+	additional issues prior to FreeBSD 15.0.
+
+	To revert to the previous USB HID driver behavior, set the loader
+	tunable hw.usb.usbhid_enable=0.
+
 20250727:
 	bmake (i.e., /usr/bin/make and /usr/share/mk) has moved to a new
 	package, FreeBSD-bmake.  If you use pkgbase and you need make, you

share/man/man4/usbhid.4

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 .\" SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd January 12, 2021
+.Dd July 30, 2025
 .Dt USBHID 4
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ and make its priority greater than other USB HID drivers, such as
 .Xr ums 4 ,
 and
 .Xr uhid 4 .
-Default is 0.
+Default is 1.
 .El
 .Bl -tag -width indent
 .It Va hw.usb.usbhid.debug

sys/dev/usb/input/usbhid.c

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 #include "hid_if.h"
 
 static SYSCTL_NODE(_hw_usb, OID_AUTO, usbhid, CTLFLAG_RW, 0, "USB usbhid");
-static int usbhid_enable = 0;
+static int usbhid_enable = 1;
 SYSCTL_INT(_hw_usb_usbhid, OID_AUTO, enable, CTLFLAG_RWTUN,
     &usbhid_enable, 0, "Enable usbhid and prefer it to other USB HID drivers");
 #ifdef USB_DEBUG