Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 08:26:51 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@digeo.com, vojtech@suse.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Making keyboard/mouse drivers dependent on CONFIG_EMBEDDED
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On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:34:24AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> I finally got sick of seeing bug reports from people who did not enable
> CONFIG_VT or forgot to enable the obscure options for the keyboard
> driver. This is especially a big problem for people who do make oldconfig
> with a 2.4 configuration, but seems to happen in general often.
> I also included the PS/2 mouse driver. It is small enough and a useful
> fallback on any PC.
> 
> This patch wraps all this for i386/amd64 in CONFIG_EMBEDDED. If 
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not defined they are not visible and always enabled.

This sounds like a bad idea.  many modern PCs only have usb keyboard/mouse
these days.  Having them in defconfig is fine but we shouldn't obsfucate
the kernel config due to user stupidity.

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