Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 7 Jun 2003 08:26:51 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Making keyboard/mouse drivers dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED |
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On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:34:24AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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.
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