linux-kernel - Re: post 2.6.34 bug: new code enabled by default

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Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 10:03:11 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
CC:	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: post 2.6.34 bug: new code enabled by default

Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
[CONFIG_RC_MAP et al]
>> Please leave the default of new options at N.
>>
>> (Unless this were a special case of new options that replaced older
>> options and need to be migrated to 'on' per default in make oldconfig.
>> I think this is not the case here.)
> 
> This is the case here. Before the RC subsystem, the decoding for NEC and RC-5
> were done inside ir-core (at ir-functions). Also, all the keymap entries (RC_MAP)
> were compiled in-kernel.

OK.  I happened to have a setup in which nothing of this was actually
used before.  (CONFIG_FIREDTV as only DVB tuner driver.)  --- Aha, it is
just a consequence of ir-core being enabled by default regardless if
needed, since 2.6.33:

config IR_CORE
	tristate
	depends on INPUT
	default INPUT
-- 
Stefan Richter
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