Re: [PATCH] input: allow SERIO=m even without EXPERT=y

[Tom Gundersen]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 08:47:10PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:
>> There is plenty of consumer hardware (e.g., mac books) that does not use
>> AT keyboards or PS/2 mice. It therefore makes sense for distro kernels
>> to build the related drivers as modules to avoid loading them on hardware
>> that does not need them. As such, these options should no longer be protected
>> by EXPERT.
>
> There are systems (although, with luck, only *very* old ones) where the
> modules won't get autoloaded. You should probably mention that in the
> help text.

Good point, if this turns out to be a problem on current hardware
distros probably want to load the modules automatically at boot by
default.

Does this problem only apply to the i8042 module or also atkbd and libps2?

Cheers,

Tom
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