Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...

Petr Baudis
2002-11-03T22:14:28Z

Dear diary, on Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:13:08PM CET, I got a letter,
where Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> told me, that...
> On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:37:34PM +0100, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Dear diary, on Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:07:05PM CET, I got a letter,
> > where Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> told me, that...
> > > Too bad you don't have any suggestions. I completely agree this should
> > > be simplified, while I wouldn't be happy to lose the possibility of not
> > > compiling AT keyboard support in.
> >
> > Well, why can't it be enabled by default? Other options are as well, and it's
> > IMHO sane to enable keyboard and mice support by default. It should clear up
> > the initial confusion as well.
>
> All the needed options ARE enabled by default. (check arch/i386/defconfig)

Yes, but if this will be in the Kconfig as well (I mean adding "default y"
lines, I can make a patch, if there's a desire), it will be offered as default
even when doing make oldconfig, which is what most of the people is going to do
(not make defconfig, most of people doesn't even know it exists and the rest
probably wants to configure 2.5 based on their 2.4 configuration anyway).

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