Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 13:30:33 +0100
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc5: where can I select INPUT?
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 03:18:41PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 11 November 2006 14:25, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 01:24:58PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > >
> > > Neither in menuconfig nor in xconfig do I see any place to actually
> > > select INPUT. Help text suggests that it is a) selectable b) it can be
> > > made modules. I do not have either option. Here what I see in menuconfig
> > > if I go into Input device support:
> > >
> > >     --- Generic input layer (needed for keyboard, mouse, ...)
> > >     < >   Support for memoryless force-feedback devices
> > >     ---   Userland interfaces
> > >
> > > as you see there is no check box for INPUT itself.
> > >
> > > I already had similar issue something else (I believe it was something
> > > related to serio). In menuconfig item was no selectable, but I could
> > > directly edit .config to change y to m.
> > >...
> >
> > INPUT can only be unset if you set CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y.
> >
> 
> {pts/1}% grep EMB /boot/config
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
> 
> > The rationale is that it usually doesn't make sense for users to disable
> > INPUT, and allowing it tends to cause some confusion.
> >
> 
> I do not want to disable it. I want to make it module (OK it has the same 
> rationale - if you need it anyway why you do want to make it module etc). 
> This should be possible according to help text. It does not work. Direct 
> editing of .config silently reverts it back to y instead of m.

What you want seems to require some non-trivial changes.

Are you trying this "just because it should work" or is there a strong 
technical reason why you need it?

> TIA
> - -andrey

cu
Adrian

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