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Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 22:28:37 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.5.5-dj1 - Bug Reports
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Hi!

> >  > It compiled fine. When I booted up everything looked normal with the
> >  > exception of a 
> >  > eth1: going OOM 
> >  > message that kept scrolling down the screen. My eth1 is a natsemi card.
> > 
> >  That's interesting. Probably moreso for Manfred. I'll double check
> >  I didn't goof merging the oom-handling patch tomorrow.
> > 
> >  > Eventually that stopped and gdm came up. For some reason my keyboard and
> >  > mouse wouldn't work.
> > 
> >  -dj includes a different input layer to Linus' tree, which requires
> >  some extra options enabled.  Vojtech, this is quite a frequent
> >  'bug report', and I think if you merged that with Linus, the number
> >  of reports would climb. Is there a possibility of simplifying the
> >  config.in somewhat? Or at least changing the defaults to give the
> >  element of least surprise..
> 
> The defaults are changed :(. However people coying their .configs over
> don't use the defaults. The help files say what to do in case of doubt.
> I'm not sure what more I can do.

Few define_bool's for transition period? That way it will get as =y to
.config, and you can present real config options after few versions
;-).

Or create 

CONFIG_ADVANCED_INPUT_OPTIONS, default to N, which will make all
suitable options Y.... That's hacky, but we've got a precedents.
									Pavel
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