Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...

Arador
2002-11-03T20:31:41Z

On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:07:05 +0100
Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> 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.

What about:

<*> serial i/o (mouse, keyboard...) support"
<*> PC PS/2 and keyboard controller (i8042)
<*> PS/2 mouse support
<*> Typical (AT) keyboard support
<*> Serial port (COM) <something> support
<*> Serial port (COM) mouse support
[*] Advanced keyboard support
<*> Other keyboards here
<*> [the other Things]

Yes, it confuses people who only wants a mouse working.
Still i think it's better than selecting the driver controller
and after that selecting the device controller (if i'm understanding
the current menu ;) BTW, we'll never be able to put a <*> Mouse support
so i think that this is the best way.

Also, the current menu has some things that i dislike ;)

- Please, don't use names such "i8042 ". Most of the people
(even people in this list i guess) didn't know what
a i8042 controller is until they had to configure that ;)
"Help" is the right place for explainig that i guess ;)

- Replace "mice" by "mouse support" or something. English isn't the only
language in the earth. Many people think that the plural
of "mouse" is "mouses" ;)

- In the current menu, you can disable the i8042 thing and you still can see
the [*] Keyboard entry alone.

and another (crap) suggestion could be to put the pc speaker support under a /proc/something
and remove the menu entry ;)