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From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Nick Warne <nick@linicks.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.31 CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 22:40:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051009204008.GG22601@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200510091141.10987.nick@linicks.net>

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 11:41:10AM +0100, Nick Warne wrote:
> What exactly does CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV do?

It's used to link keybdev.o in drivers/input/Makefile, and to resolve a
few dependencies for other config options (HIL) in some hil/Config.in.

> I found that _not_setting it, 2.4.31 still looks for keyboard at boot:
> 
> Oct  9 10:41:49 kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed)
> Oct  9 10:41:50 kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)

(...)

> Therefore I still have to manually edit include/linux/pc_keyb.h to undef the 
> (no) keyboard timeouts:

This option is not used for pc_keyb.c inclusion which is linked unless you
set CONFIG_DUMMY_KEYB (check drivers/char/Makefile for this), in which case
you'll use dummy_keyb.c which was made exactly for your usage.

Cheers,
Willy


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-10-09 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-09 10:41 2.4.31 CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV Nick Warne
2005-10-09 20:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-10-09 20:40 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2005-10-10 18:24   ` Nick Warne
2005-10-11  4:50     ` Willy Tarreau

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