From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: allow SERIO=m even without EXPERT=y
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 16:02:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130903150226.GA2392@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378147630-12471-1-git-send-email-teg@jklm.no>
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:47:10PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> There is plenty of consumer hardware (e.g., mac books) that does not use
> AT keyboards or PS/2 mice. It therefore makes sense for distro kernels
> to build the related drivers as modules to avoid loading them on hardware
> that does not need them. As such, these options should no longer be protected
> by EXPERT.
There are systems (although, with luck, only *very* old ones) where the
modules won't get autoloaded. You should probably mention that in the
help text.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-03 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-02 18:47 [PATCH] input: allow SERIO=m even without EXPERT=y Tom Gundersen
2013-09-02 21:01 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-09-02 21:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-09-02 21:46 ` Tom Gundersen
2013-09-03 15:02 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2013-09-03 16:25 ` Tom Gundersen
2013-09-03 19:24 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2013-09-03 19:35 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-09-04 9:27 ` [PATCH] input: i8042 - add PNP modaliases Tom Gundersen
2013-10-04 12:26 ` Tom Gundersen
2013-10-30 14:30 ` Tom Gundersen
2013-10-31 7:44 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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