This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Input: allow deselecting serio drivers even without CONFIG_EXPERT
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
input-allow-deselecting-serio-drivers-even-without-config_expert.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From bcd2623073e98f69f84720308db0b142c4da0bd6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:38:30 -0700
Subject: Input: allow deselecting serio drivers even without CONFIG_EXPERT
From: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
commit bcd2623073e98f69f84720308db0b142c4da0bd6 upstream.
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.
Moreover, building these drivers as modules gets rid of the following ugly
error during boot:
[ 2.337745] i8042: PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly.
[ 3.439537] i8042: No controller found
Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig | 4 ++--
drivers/input/serio/Kconfig | 6 +++---
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/input/keyboard/Kconfig
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# Input core configuration
#
menuconfig INPUT_KEYBOARD
- bool "Keyboards" if EXPERT || !X86
+ bool "Keyboards"
default y
help
Say Y here, and a list of supported keyboards will be displayed.
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ config KEYBOARD_ATARI
module will be called atakbd.
config KEYBOARD_ATKBD
- tristate "AT keyboard" if EXPERT || !X86
+ tristate "AT keyboard"
default y
select SERIO
select SERIO_LIBPS2
--- a/drivers/input/serio/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/input/serio/Kconfig
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# Input core configuration
#
config SERIO
- tristate "Serial I/O support" if EXPERT || !X86
+ tristate "Serial I/O support"
default y
help
Say Yes here if you have any input device that uses serial I/O to
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ config SERIO
if SERIO
config SERIO_I8042
- tristate "i8042 PC Keyboard controller" if EXPERT || !X86
+ tristate "i8042 PC Keyboard controller"
default y
depends on !PARISC && (!ARM || ARCH_SHARK || FOOTBRIDGE_HOST) && \
(!SUPERH || SH_CAYMAN) && !M68K && !BLACKFIN
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ config SERIO_MACEPS2
module will be called maceps2.
config SERIO_LIBPS2
- tristate "PS/2 driver library" if EXPERT
+ tristate "PS/2 driver library"
depends on SERIO_I8042 || SERIO_I8042=n
help
Say Y here if you are using a driver for device connected
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from teg@xxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/input-allow-deselecting-serio-drivers-even-without-config_expert.patch
queue-3.4/input-mousedev-allow-disabling-even-without-config_expert.patch
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