RE: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ?

[Ron Verhees]

Personally I never got the point for including something that you won't
need anyway. True you can say that it doesn't hurt anyone on the
computers nowadays but is there any specific reason for not having it
mandatory (eg. Fixing it)?

Regards,
Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Adrian Bunk
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2003 1:16 PM
To: Nicolas Mailhot
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: PS2 keyboard & mice mandatory again ?

On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:11:45AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> Great, now a standard mass-market computer is an embedded device. I
can
> (and will) certainly do it, but this looks like a ticking bomb to me.
>...

What does it cost if an unneeded driver is included in your kernel? 
Perhaps a few kB?

On a standard mass-market computer with 256 MB of RAM where the user 
uses Mozilla under KDE this is quite irrelevant.

EMBEDDED is for people that really have to count every kB to put a 
kernel onto a small floppy/flash/computer with limited RAM.

> Regards,
> Nicolas Mailhot

cu
Adrian

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