Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Nov 2002 18:46:31 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness... |
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:43:18AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Keep in mind that All the World's Not a PC. No doubt those options are > enabled on the majority of kernels, by number, but linux supports many, > many types of systems, and I'll bet on fair number of them, it doesn't > make much sense to enable psaux mouse support! > So ... instead of saying `default y' for these options, how about saying > `default IM_ON_A_PC' where IM_ON_A_PC is defined somehow. How, I don't > know; it could be a separate config question in a very obvious place, > perhaps itself having `default X86'. > Perhaps this should really be two flags, one IM_ON_A_PC meaning `typical > i386 pc with legacy devices', and the other, more general, being > something like IM_ON_A_WORKSTATION. Then wierd things like psaux would > say `default IM_ON_A_PC', but more general things like keyboards would > say `default IM_ON_A_WORKSTATION'. > [Yeah, those names are sucky, I know...] > Thanks, > -Miles
How about a PC subarch and turning them on by default for it?
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