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SubjectRe: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...
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?


Bill
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