Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754777AbZIMP7T (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:59:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754642AbZIMP7Q (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:59:16 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:44896 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754569AbZIMP7P (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:59:15 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:59:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Jiri Kosina X-X-Sender: jkosina@wotan.suse.de To: Richard Kennedy Cc: lkml , linux-kbuild , linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: special HID & Kconfig: odd behavior in gconfig In-Reply-To: <1252681027.2282.23.camel@castor> Message-ID: References: <1252681027.2282.23.camel@castor> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1472 Lines: 46 On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Richard Kennedy wrote: > I use gconfig & and cannot turn off any of the special HID devices. > > the Kconfig for them all have the same pattern e.g. > > config HID_DRAGONRISE > tristate "DragonRise Inc. support" if EMBEDDED > depends on USB_HID > default !EMBEDDED > > The 'if EMBEDDED' on the tristate line seems to confuse gconfig and it > sets them all to m & does not let me set them to N. I'm building this on > a standard desktop machine. > > Any idea what the intention of this was? or can we just remove the if > embedded part? Hi Richard, actually this question has been raised by several people in the past already. Copy/pasting the latest reply I have sent on this topic === 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 last paragraph on http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/14/284 === -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- 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/