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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 16:02:26 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
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        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] input: allow SERIO=m even without EXPERT=y
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On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:47:10PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> There is plenty of consumer hardware (e.g., mac books) that does not use
> AT keyboards or PS/2 mice. It therefore makes sense for distro kernels
> to build the related drivers as modules to avoid loading them on hardware
> that does not need them. As such, these options should no longer be protected
> by EXPERT.

There are systems (although, with luck, only *very* old ones) where the 
modules won't get autoloaded. You should probably mention that in the 
help text.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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