Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Jun 2003 22:43:40 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Making keyboard/mouse drivers dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED |
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Hi!
> > I finally got sick of seeing bug reports from people who did not enable > > CONFIG_VT or forgot to enable the obscure options for the keyboard > > driver. This is especially a big problem for people who do make oldconfig > > with a 2.4 configuration, but seems to happen in general often. > > I also included the PS/2 mouse driver. It is small enough and a useful > > fallback on any PC. > > > > This patch wraps all this for i386/amd64 in CONFIG_EMBEDDED. If > > CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not defined they are not visible and always enabled. > > This sounds like a bad idea. many modern PCs only have usb keyboard/mouse > these days. Having them in defconfig is fine but we shouldn't obsfucate > the kernel config due to user stupidity.
Its more like "make oldconfig" limitation, IIRC. If you have some old config, it ignores defconfig and suggests you N for new options. And yes people were hitting that. Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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