From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Allow iseries to disable input layer without CONFIG_EMBEDDED
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:09:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601070009.29920.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060106073819.GA731@redhat.com>
On Friday 06 January 2006 02:38, Dave Jones wrote:
> iSeries has no keyboard, so it's valid to build a kernel with no input layer.
> It seems a bit absurd to call one of these 'embedded'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
>
> --- linux-2.6.15/drivers/input/Kconfig~ 2006-01-06 02:27:56.000000000 -0500
> +++ linux-2.6.15/drivers/input/Kconfig 2006-01-06 02:28:08.000000000 -0500
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
> menu "Input device support"
>
> config INPUT
> - tristate "Generic input layer (needed for keyboard, mouse, ...)" if EMBEDDED
> + tristate "Generic input layer (needed for keyboard, mouse, ...)"
> default y
> ---help---
> Say Y here if you have any input device (mouse, keyboard, tablet,
It is there as a precaution... I wonder if we should have it changed to:
if EMBEDDED || !X86
to ensure that we don't have issues on commodity hardware.
--
Dmitry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-07 5:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-06 7:38 Allow iseries to disable input layer without CONFIG_EMBEDDED Dave Jones
2006-01-06 9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-06 9:09 ` Dave Jones
2006-01-06 9:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-01-07 5:09 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
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