Re: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ?

From: Vojtech Pavlik
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 02:47:55 EST


On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:32:54PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just had the unpleasant surprise to find out that in the latest
> 2.6 snapshots
>
> CONFIG_SERIO=y
> CONFIG_SERIO_I8042=y
>
> is forced on everyone. I know the modularization of 8042 has generated a
> lot of bug reports, but couldn't people just fix the damn option name
> and description instead of making it mandatory ?
>
> There are already a lot of people (me included) with a 100% usb input
> setup. More are on the way (really a nice hub on the desk instead of
> crawling under it to reach PS/2 ports is a no-brainer once you've tested
> it). Please revert this change.

If you enable CONFIG_EMBEDDED, you can switch it off.

--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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