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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix the -test3 input config damages
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 06:38:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> There's really no point in forcing in support for all kinds of
> optional input devices unless CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Also some of the
> selections really broke configs that worked fine before as indicated
> by the reports on lkml. Instead select CONFIG_INPUT if CONFIG_VT
> is selected so people upgrading from 2.4 using make oldconfig have
> a chance to see it if they didn't need CONFIG_INPUT before.
>
> Btw, could we please get a consensus on what CONFIG_EMBEDDED is
> supposed to mean? It was introduced to allow compiling code out
> for special cases that normal userspace should be able to rely
> on like epoll and futexes but people seem to use it as an Aunt Tillie
> guard these days..

I think this is the way to go. I'm merging this into my tree now.

> --- 1.15/drivers/char/Kconfig Wed Jul 16 13:39:32 2003
> +++ edited/drivers/char/Kconfig Sun Aug 10 11:17:02 2003
> @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
> menu "Character devices"
>
> config VT
> - bool "Virtual terminal" if EMBEDDED
> - requires INPUT=y
> + bool "Virtual terminal"
> + select INPUT
> default y
> ---help---
> If you say Y here, you will get support for terminal devices with
> @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
> shiny Linux system :-)
>
> config VT_CONSOLE
> - bool "Support for console on virtual terminal" if EMBEDDED
> + bool "Support for console on virtual terminal"
> depends on VT
> default y
> ---help---

[snip]

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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