Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751592AbWB0HKr (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:10:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751631AbWB0HKr (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:10:47 -0500 Received: from styx.suse.cz ([82.119.242.94]:17824 "EHLO mail.suse.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751584AbWB0HKq (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Feb 2006 02:10:46 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 08:11:07 +0100 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Adrian Bunk , Jan Engelhardt , Geert Uytterhoeven , Samuel Masham , Linux Kernel Development , linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] make INPUT a bool Message-ID: <20060227071107.GA8201@suse.cz> References: <20060220132832.GF4971@stusta.de> <20060225220737.GE3674@stusta.de> <200602251723.53349.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200602251723.53349.dtor_core@ameritech.net> X-Bounce-Cookie: It's a lemon tree, dear Watson! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1266 Lines: 32 On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 05:23:52PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > Adrian, > > There are requests to move it out of EMBEDDED because sometimes you > just don't need input layer at all. Dave Jones mentioned that he > feels silly enabling EMBEDDED on iSeries... I am thinking about > changing it to "EMBEDDED || !X86_PC" to safe-guard the most common > platform from accidenially disabling it. > > I am still not convinced whether INPUT=m makes sence, especially if > we make ACPI use input layer... Jan's example about input device with > hot-pluggable keyboard is a bit of a stretch. The possibility to keep INPUT=m makes a big sense in that it keeps the interfaces to the rest of the kernel clean. No direct linking, no callbacks into inner functions from elsewhere, etc. Nicely isolated. Even with ACPI, the part that will use input will usually be modular, too. The only big user of INPUT, which can't be modular at the time is CONFIG_VT. And this, I believe, is a bug. -- Vojtech Pavlik Director SuSE Labs - 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/