Re: Petition against kernel configuration options madness...

Andries Brouwer
2002-11-03T21:52:04Z

On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 08:07:05PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

> > Unfortunately I don't have any concrete suggestions for Vojtech (input
> > subsystem maintainer), just a request that it becomes easier and more
> > obvious how to configure the keyboard and mouse that is found on > 90%
> > of all Linux users computers [IMO]...
>
> 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.

Last month or so I suggested adding a hint for Appletalk, and I see
that it is there now:

config LLC
tristate "ANSI/IEEE 802.2 Data link layer protocol (IPX, Appletalk)"

Such parenthetical remarks will no doubt help a little.
You might try

--- Kconfig~ Thu Oct 31 14:15:06 2002
+++ Kconfig Sun Nov 3 22:51:45 2002
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
menu "Input device support"

config INPUT
- tristate
+ tristate "Input devices (needed for mouse, keyboard, ...)"
default y
---help---
Say Y here if you have any input device (mouse, keyboard, tablet,

and

--- Kconfig~ Thu Oct 31 14:15:06 2002
+++ Kconfig Sun Nov 3 22:54:28 2002
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# Input core configuration
#
config SERIO
- tristate "Serial i/o support"
+ tristate "Serial i/o support (needed for keyboard and mouse)"
---help---
Say Yes here if you have any input device that uses serial I/O to
communicate with the system. This includes the

(and maybe also sth under keyboard, to tell people that what they have
is called an AT keyboard).

Andries