Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:43:41 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: Henk Martijn <h.h.martijn@gmail.com>
Cc: jirislaby@gmail.com, jussi.kivilinna@mbnet.fi, tomas.hanak@gmail.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: Don't hide HID drivers behind EMBEDDED
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Henk Martijn wrote:

> When trying to minimizing my .config I found that couldn't deselect some 
> HID drivers because they were hidden behind EMBEDDED. What's the reason?

Hi,

mostly this is because we don't want to bother users with asking for every 
single quirky device/vendor, as there are unfortunately a lot of them. 
Usually compiling everything in doesn't waste runtime footprint (the 
modules don't get loaded unless needed), and they don't cost too much disk 
space either.
And if you really want to disable them, CONFIG_EMBEDDED allows you to do 
that.

Please see

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/14/284

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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