Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932283AbVJIUAh (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 16:00:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932281AbVJIUAh (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 16:00:37 -0400 Received: from h80ad250e.async.vt.edu ([128.173.37.14]:34491 "EHLO h80ad250e.async.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932283AbVJIUAg (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Oct 2005 16:00:36 -0400 Message-Id: <200510092000.j99K0Pl1006387@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Nick Warne Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.31 CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:41:10 BST." <200510091141.10987.nick@linicks.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <200510091141.10987.nick@linicks.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1128888023_2746P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:00:23 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1364 Lines: 40 --==_Exmh_1128888023_2746P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:41:10 BST, Nick Warne said: > What exactly does CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV do? > > 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) > > and doing a find/grep in the code reveals that CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBDEV doesn't > seem to do anything anywhere except def/undef itself: > > > [root@linux-2.4.31]# find . -name \*.h -exec grep -iHn "INPUT_KEYBDEV" {} \; Try grepping through the *Makefiles* for that. In many cases, a CONFIG_FOO variable is used to control whether a given .c is compiled into a .o for inclusion in the kernel. --==_Exmh_1128888023_2746P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFDSXbXcC3lWbTT17ARAgYaAJ4ktEYyeNs02iQVZG5JraVGIgM56QCfWTIB 4cZcwaKsf+BC0ekSYP/7X2g= =8HRk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1128888023_2746P-- - 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/