Re: 2.6.19-rc5: where can I select INPUT?

From: Russell King
Date: Sat Nov 11 2006 - 07:30:15 EST


On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 03:18:41PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Saturday 11 November 2006 14:25, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The rationale is that it usually doesn't make sense for users to disable
> > INPUT, and allowing it tends to cause some confusion.
>
> I do not want to disable it. I want to make it module (OK it has the same
> rationale - if you need it anyway why you do want to make it module etc).
> This should be possible according to help text. It does not work. Direct
> editing of .config silently reverts it back to y instead of m.

Welcome to the wonderful world of the 'select' kconfig statement.

config VT
bool "Virtual terminal" if EMBEDDED
select INPUT
default y if !VIOCONS

This means if VT is selected, INPUT has to be 'y'.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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