Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261817AbTIYLhb (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:37:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261815AbTIYLhb (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:37:31 -0400 Received: from [193.67.22.90] ([193.67.22.90]:37636 "HELO cook.nl") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261811AbTIYLh2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 07:37:28 -0400 From: "Ron Verhees" To: "'Adrian Bunk'" Cc: Subject: RE: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ? Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 13:36:04 +0200 Message-ID: <007e01c38359$3434f640$c9001f0a@cookvpn.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20030925111547.GL15696@fs.tum.de> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1883 Lines: 57 Personally I never got the point for including something that you won't need anyway. True you can say that it doesn't hurt anyone on the computers nowadays but is there any specific reason for not having it mandatory (eg. Fixing it)? Regards, Ron -----Original Message----- From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Bunk Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:16 PM To: Nicolas Mailhot Cc: Vojtech Pavlik; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ? On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Great, now a standard mass-market computer is an embedded device. I can > (and will) certainly do it, but this looks like a ticking bomb to me. >... What does it cost if an unneeded driver is included in your kernel? Perhaps a few kB? On a standard mass-market computer with 256 MB of RAM where the user uses Mozilla under KDE this is quite irrelevant. EMBEDDED is for people that really have to count every kB to put a kernel onto a small floppy/flash/computer with limited RAM. > Regards, > Nicolas Mailhot cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/