On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 08:34:24AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> I finally got sick of seeing bug reports from people who did not enable
> CONFIG_VT or forgot to enable the obscure options for the keyboard
> driver. This is especially a big problem for people who do make oldconfig
> with a 2.4 configuration, but seems to happen in general often.
> I also included the PS/2 mouse driver. It is small enough and a useful
> fallback on any PC.
>
> This patch wraps all this for i386/amd64 in CONFIG_EMBEDDED. If
> CONFIG_EMBEDDED is not defined they are not visible and always enabled.
This sounds like a bad idea. many modern PCs only have usb keyboard/mouse
these days. Having them in defconfig is fine but we shouldn't obsfucate
the kernel config due to user stupidity.
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