From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Allow iseries to disable input layer without CONFIG_EMBEDDED
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:09:29 -0500
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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
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